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Japan & Asia
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Japan will not reject talks on increasing the resources of the International Monetary Fund to help ease tensions over the eurozone sovereign debt crisis but the United States must be involved in the process, Finance Minister Jun Azumi says. (Japan Times)
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The Japanese government will hold a memorial ceremony on March 11 in Tokyo to mark the first anniversary of the quake and tsunami that devastated parts of the Tohoku region and triggered the world’s worst nuclear crisis since 1986. (Japan Times)
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The remains of 11 Japanese soldiers killed in World War II are being exhumed at a war cemetery in the north-eastern Indian city of Guwahati. (BBC)
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“Shame on you, shame on you,” shouted protestors, as officials met to discuss plans to restart Japan’s nuclear plants for the first time since last year’s Fukushima disaster. (CNN)
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A Japanese government plan to allocate billions of dollars in funding for Okinawa this year is intended to buy public support for keeping a U.S. Marine Corps base on the island, analysts say. (Stars and Stripes)
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Activists accuse Japanese whalers of striking them with grappling hooks, while whalers says the activists tried to sabotage their vessel. (BBC)
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In a move that could reignite territorial tensions, a quartet of remote, anonymous islets surrounding the disputed group of East China Sea islands known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China will be getting a name by the end of March. (WSJ)
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A South Korea appeals court rejects a U.S. soldier’s plea to reduce his 10-year prison sentence for the brutal rape of a Korean girl, saying he subjected the 17-year-old to “unimaginable” horror during the attack. (Stars and Stripes)
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Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda of Japan reshuffled his Cabinet on Friday in an effort to advance his unpopular plan to raise the country's sales tax and solidify his political power in parliament. (CNN)
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The euro falls to near the ¥97 line after Standard & Poor’s downgraded the credit ratings of nine eurozone countries. Finance Minister Jun Azumi says the “rapid” fall of the euro’s value is creating concerns. (Japan Times)
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Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda said Standard & Poor’s credit-rating downgrade of nine European nations underscores how critical it is to boost Japan’s finances to contain the world’s largest public debt load. (BusinessWeek)
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With U.S. officials pressing Japan to make major progress on the long-stalled relocation of U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma within Okinawa, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda will have their work cut out getting locals to accept the move. (Japan Times)
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Ken Saishoji, a 46-year-old Tokyo real-estate agent, used to answer questions from potential apartment buyers about the proximity to train stations and prices. After the March 11 earthquake, that changed. (BusinessWeek)
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As Japan and the U.S. prepare to mark the 100th anniversary of the presentation of 3,000 cherry trees to Washington by Tokyo as a gift in 1912, the U.S. government is drawing up a plan to present Japan with 3,000 dogwood seedlings. (Japan Times)
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Ma Ying-jeou wins 51% of the vote after a tense campaign packed with criticism of his overtures to China. He had urged voters to see his efforts at rapprochement with Beijing as an economic stimulus. (LA Times)
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A foreign suspect with alleged links to Hezbollah militants lead Thai police to a warehouse filled with materials commonly used to make bombs, as Thailand and the United States disagreed over whether Bangkok was the target of a terror plot. (Boston Globe)
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China criticizes U.S. sanctions imposed on oil firm Zhuhai Zhenrong for trading with Iran as Premier Wen Jiabao visits the Gulf. (BBC)
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner’s efforts to tighten economic sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program won backing from Japan a day after China rejected limiting oil imports from the country. (BusinessWeek)
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Japan suffered an economic catastrophe in the 1990s, but were the 20 years that followed really “lost decades” of economic stagnation? (BBC)
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The Associated Press formally opens a news bureau in the North Korean capital — the first Western news agency to do so. (BBC)
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A Tibetan sets himself on fire in south-western China, in the latest in a series of self-immolations, prompting clashes between police and locals. (BBC)
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2011 appears to be the 14th straight year for the annual suicide count to exceed 30,000, according to tentative statistics recently released by the National Police Agency. (Japan Times)
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Emperor Akihito recounts his visit to areas devastated by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in a poem recited at the annual New Year Poetry Reading Ceremony at the Imperial Palace. (Japan Times)
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North Korea said that it would place the body of Kim Jong-il on permanent display in a Pyongyang mausoleum and install his statues, portraits and memorial towers across the country. (NY Times)
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The former president of a major Japanese railway is found not guilty of negligence in a 2005 crash that killed 107 people in western Japan and raised concerns over pressures to sacrifice safety for punctuality. (Wash. Post)
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Japan’s population is getting smaller so to try to boost the birth rate, payments have been introduced for parents and steps have been made to improve access to child care. But a survey reveals that many young men and women have no interest in sex. (BBC)
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The country accuses the United States “politicizing” the assistance, but still indicated that it may be willing to engage Washington. (NY Times)
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Ronald Reagan and Casper Weinberger defeated the Soviet Union through an arms race that pushed the latter to bankruptcy. Is the same strategy being pursued against China? And where does it leave Japan? (Forbes)
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Japan says it will soon require atomic reactors to be shut down after 40 years of use to improve safety following the nuclear crisis set off by last year's tsunami. (Manufacturing.net)
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Japan says it will hand over to Australian authorities three Australian anti-whaling activists being held aboard a Japanese vessel, but that it would press on with its annual whale hunt in the seas near Antarctica. (CNN)
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About 1.22 million people born in 1991 who had reached the age of 20 before January celebrated the Coming of Age holiday. Their ranks totaled 20,000 less than in 2010. (Japan Times)
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A Japanese shipyard worker dies at Yokosuka Naval Base following an accident involving an anchor, U.S. Navy officials say. (Stars and Stripes)
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While taking full responsibility and apologizing for his actions in the Sept. 24 rape of a 17-year-old Korean girl, Pvt. Kevin Lee Flippin told a three-judge Seoul High Court panel, “I think 10 years is a little too much." (Stars and Stripes)
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Japan and North Korea secretly made contact in China, where they are believed to have discussed the abduction issue, say sources at the prime minister's office. (Japan Times)
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Japan’s top nuclear envoy will travel to Korea to discuss the North Korean nuclear issue following the death of Kim Jong-il, a Seoul official says. (Korea Times)
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The head of Japan’s latest investigation into the Fukushima nuclear disaster promised to dig deeper than previous inquiries into the events that unfolded after an earthquake and tsunami struck the country last March. (BusinessWeek)
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