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A prominent Japanese politician stirred controversy on Monday saying “comfort women” of World War II were “necessary.”

PDI, Nanosphere, Information Services Group, Take-Two and Tesla Motors prevailed in the Nasdaq post-market trading on Monday.

Christie’s auction house will help wealthy Chinese snap up not just a fine bottle of French wine but also the vineyard it came from.

Israel is one of the world's most attractive places for life-sciences startups, but lately the biomedical revolution there has hit a snag.

Economic reports this week may cast light on how long the current U.S. and Japanese stock-market rallies might last.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's policies appear to be helping exporters, according to the latest BoJ report.

Analyses indicate the recovery is actually faltering, based on multiple economic and market variables.

A new concept bra launched by Triumph International in Tokyo plays on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's “three arrow” economic strategy.

Japan registered a protest to China on Thursday over People’s Daily newspaper questioning Tokyo’s historical claim on Okinawa.

Traders and institutional investors are preparing for another round of corporate earnings reports.

Sharp, one of Apple’s primary display suppliers, is set to begin mass production of LCD display panels for the “iPhone 5S.”

Turkey plans to build a second nuclear power plant courtesy of a Japanese-French consortium.

China Shipping Container Lines' 18.4K-box vessels surpass Maersk's 18K-capacity ships, but both are too big for the Panama Canal.

U.S. Doctors warn that Gonorrhea HO41 could temporarily be "worse than AIDS."

While Japan and China spar over islands, Japan's Taro Aso makes a statement that doesn't go in the direction of smoothing things out.

Japan and Turkey signed a civil nuclear cooperation pact on Friday, a milestone for Japanese nuclear power program.

The world's largest Bitcoin exchange, Mt. Gox, was sued by CoinLab for breaching a contract between the two companies.

With 1,000 films produced annually (about double Hollywood’s output), Bollywood is the world’s most prolific cinema factory.

Defense Secretary Hagel made it official: The U.S. is committed to taking Japan's side on the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands.

Apple released the iOS 6.1.4 update for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch on Thursday morning.

In 2012 the number of countries that have abolished the death penalty rose to 97 – up from 80 in 2003.