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Byline: technologygreg waldron singapore Acquisition agen c y continues to consider strategy for new combat type and possible foreign pa r tnership, as X-2 tests end Japan's Acquisition, Technology & [...]

Japan wants the F-22, but Washington will not let anyone, not even its closest ally in East Asia, access its most advanced fighter. Where does this leave Tokyo? The F-35 [...]

The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare's study group on systems related to health foods has held its first meeting at which Heizo Tanaka, director general of the National [...]

Japan has begun taxi tests of a high-speed flight demonstrator (HSFD) which will examine approach and landing technologies for a future reusable launch vehicle (RLV). The turbojet-powered HSFD-I is a [...]

The Nissan revival plan has transformed the fortunes of European suppliers in Japan. The plan was launched just before the Tokyo auto show in October 1999, six months after French [...]

A Canadian company wants to grow Atlantic halibut for Japan's sushi market on the Big Island. Unlimited Halibut Corp. of Vancouver, B.C., is working with the Natural Energy Laboratory of [...]

Now is an ideal time for American firms to invest in Japanese high-tech companies, according to Robert Jamison, VP International, for LING Media, a Tokyo-based company which has its U.S. [...]

Chevron/Texaco is unequivocally 'the last big oil deal that will be done in the U.S.,' according to a senior M&A energy banker. With roughly six top companies now controlling the [...]

Delta will suspend its daily Portland-Tokyo Narita and Portland-Nagoya services from April 1 and reduce domestic operations substantially at the Oregon airport. Delta said losses at Portland totaled more than [...]

TOKYO - The U.S. and Japanese governments are set to enter the next round of talks over telecom reform in Japan, this time over how much dominant carrier Nippon Telegraph […]

TOKYO--DJ Honda, who four years ago took the bold step of trying to make it as a Japanese DJ/producer in New York, has set up his own record label, DJ [...]

We could have danced around the issue a bit more delicately, but chief executives aren't always given to great exhibitions of political correctness. When controversy arises, the best policy for [...]

LONDON, NEW YORK AND TOKYO The main impact of the millennium bug will come not from faulty computers, but from the measures that are being taken to avoid trouble 'IT [...]

TOKYO - The recently signed agreement between the United States and Japan to build a next-generation version of the high-altitude Theater Missile Defense system will involve a number of technologies […]

If not the undiscovered country, Japan is a new frontier for many private equity firms and their investors. But that might soon change. Several private equity firms, including Ripplewood Holdings [...]

Issues concerning the ways in which suburban developments on the fringe of urban Japan continue to flourish despite the 1968 planning regulations are discussed. Particular attention is given to the instability of the residential developments these developments create.

Japan's planned SELENE (Selenological and Engineering Explorer) lunar missions is expected to increase mankind's knowledge about the geologic forces affecting the lunar surface. The orbiting vehicle is expected to eject penetrators carrying seismological and monitoring equipments deep into the lunar surface.

Japan's Mars exploration missions are expected to start in July 1998, with the launch of the Planet-B missions. The mission entails the collection of Martian atmospheric data, from wind behavior to magnetic emissions.

Japan is planning a genomic research project aimed to generate new gene data compression, which might be use in developing new therapeutics. Genome network project would have funding of around Yen 3 billion ($ 26 million) over five years, which would take care of gene expression and transcription promotion

Japan and South Korea are in the final stages of preparations for talks on a free-trade agreement, the Nihon Keizai newspaper reported. Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and South Korean […]