Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton talked tough on her first overseas trip as America's top diplomat, delivering a sharp warning to North Korea on Tuesday over its threat to conduct a missile test. ...more

February 18, 2009

Toshio Tamogami draws a full pension, gives lectures, appears on TV talk shows and is treated with respect. ...more

January 11, 2009

Leaders from Asia and Europe on Saturday called for new rules and stronger regulation of the global monetary and financial system at the close of a two-day summit in Beijing as China assumed a new leadership role in the crisis. ...more

October 26, 2008

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's abrupt announcement on Wednesday afternoon that he would resign upset what was to have been an orderly end to the nationalist leader's scandal- and gaffe-prone government. The resignation threw Japan's tense political situation into further disarray. ...more

September 13, 2007