Topic: Japan
Japan's All Nippon Airways (ANA) warned on Friday of a deeper net loss for the year to March but vowed to surpass its ailing rival Japan Airlines (JAL) and become Asia's largest airline. ANA said its net loss would more than double to 65 billion yen (719 million dollars) from its earlier estimate of 28 billion yen for ...
The Japanese government, sushi lovers and seafood traders at Tokyo's massive Tsukiji fish market on Friday cheered the defeat of a proposed ban on trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna. "It was good," Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama told reporters, after a UN wildlife meeting in Qatar voted down a proposal to ban the international trade of bluefin caught in the ...
Japan will boost its aid to quake-hit Haiti to 100 million dollars, a report said Friday as the country's foreign minister prepared to visit the impoverished Caribbean nation this weekend. Japan, which has already pledged 70 million dollars in emergency aid and for long-term reconstruction, will raise the total sum by 30 million dollars, public broadcaster NHK said. The ...
