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Japan's indigenous Ainu battle for return of ancestors
Japan's long marginalised and little-known indigenous people, the Ainu, are engaged in a protracted and symbolic struggle.
Closing in on organ advance
Japanese scientists are expecting to be granted approval to grow human organs in animals and then harvest them for transplant within the next year.
Japan's 4.1pc growth gives Abe a lift
Japan's economy grew more than the Government initially estimated in the first quarter, helping Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to sustain confidence in his campaign to defeat deflation.
NZ seeks closer ties with Japan
New Zealand and Japan have vowed to increase cooperation on earthquake engineering and disaster recovery following the devastating quakes which struck both nations.
Japanese Foreign Minister to meet McCully, Groser
Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida will meet Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully and Trade Minister Tim Groser in New Zealand this weekend.
Editorial: Japan must embrace competition
A visit by a foreign minister of Japan would not normally attract more than polite interest in this country, writes the Herald in an editorial.
Japan: Rusutsu's snow is hard to resist
If Niseko is the crown jewel of Japanese skiing, then Rusutsu is one of its most lustrous, and least known, diamond clusters.
Editorial: Japan must not undermine TPP
Editorial: New Zealand has, with good cause, always harboured mixed feelings about Japan joining the Trans Pacific Partnership.
Keith Rankin: 'Abenomics' offers leg up for the world
Japan, in a big way, is looking to create inflation and stimulate business investment spending by aggressively increasing its money supply while holding interest rates at zero.
Global death penalty report released
Amnesty International is asking New Zealand to call on Japan to abolish capital punishment following the release of the 2012 global death penalty statistics report today.
Japan readies missiles amid North Korea threats
Japan has deployed Patriot missiles in its capital as it readies to defend the 30 million people who live in greater Tokyo from any North Korean attack.
US spy plane for Japan
The US military is set to deploy an unmanned spy plane in Japan to boost surveillance capabilities as North Korea apparently readies for missile launches.
Japan lures younger players
The power of the yen and relative merits of Japan are proving too good to turn down for an increasingly young and talented crop of players in New Zealand.
Christchurch Japanese remember quake in homeland
Around 50 members of the Japanese community in Christchurch have turned out to remember those who suffered in their homeland's quake and tsunami.
US sailors jailed for rape of Japanese woman in Okinawa
Two US sailors who raped a Japanese woman in Okinawa last October, sparking island-wide anger, have been jailed for nine and 10 years, a report said.
Anti whaling fleet takes on its biggest campaign yet
Three Sea Shepherd ships have left New Zealand for the Southern Ocean ready to do battle in the activist group's biggest Antarctic summer campaign against Japanese whaling.