JAPAN

Fitch Ratings compared Europe to economically stagnant Japan, which hasn't seen auto sales rise above its 1990 peak.

Japan's manufacturing activity slowed in January, but it did so at the slowest pace in four months as a weaker yen helped exports.

U.S. stock index futures pointed to a slightly lower open Thursday ahead of the Labor Department's weekly jobless claims data and the Commerce Department's personal income and spending data.

Toyota Motor Corp. will recall nearly 1.3 million cars globally for two separate defects, including 752,000 Corolla and Corolla Matrix vehicles in the United States to fix airbags that could be deployed inadvertently, the automaker said.

Japan’s retail sales rose a better-than-expected 0.4 percent in December in comparison to the same period last year, but lower than the 1.3 percent growth cloaked in November.

Even before two battery failures led to the grounding of all Boeing 787 Dreamliner jets, the planes’ lithium-ion batteries had experienced multiple problems that raised questions about their reliability, The New York Times reports.

The game industry could face a tougher challenge than investors originally predicted when trying to enter the Chinese market.

The government may lift its ban on video game consoles. But Beijing's gamers, and the people who sell the illegal stuff, may not even notice.

Unwto issued its latest World Tourism Barometer on Monday, outlining which regions saw the greatest growth in 2012, and what to expect in 2013.

A weaker yen will be welcome news to Japan’s exporting companies, after enduring a prolonged bout of "endaka," or a strong yen.

International Business Machines will partner with Germany’s SAP in a new global service for the cloud and “big data."

This week the focus will be on U.S. non-farm payrolls, ISM data, FOMC decision and January vehicle sales.

Helicopters were maintaining watch over the city as government troops stood prepared for a guerrilla war.

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner fiery battery problen has renewed attention on an issue that never went away.

Sources in North Korea are reporting that a famine has claimed 10,000 lives. People are so desperate that some may have resorted to cannibalism.

Italy's Monte dei Paschi, the world's oldest bank, is accused of hiding huge losses from complex deals just before a massive government bailout.

Japan's No. 1 carmaker, Toyota Motor Corporation (TYO:7283), became the world's biggest carmaker in 2012 by selling more vehicles than General Motors Company (NYSE:GM).

Japan will boost its military headcount, the biggest increase in two decades, in order to increase surveillance of disputed waters.

PepsiCo Inc. announced it would stop using brominated vegetable oil in its Gatorade products, but what exactly makes the chemical unsafe?

A special envoy from Japan met China’s Communist Party chief and expressed the hope that the tensions between the two countries could be resolved.

Only about 3.5 percent of the Japanese population is obese, versus rates as high as 30 percent or greater in the U.S.