NetQuantum :: Arts :: Education :: Language_Arts :: English :: English_as_a_Second_Language :: Language_Schools :: Asia :: Japan ::

• U.S.: North Korea 'cooperative'
The North shut down its sole operational reactor at Yongbyon in July and promised to disable it by year’s end in exchange for energy aid and political concessions from other countries involved in talks on its nuclear program: the U.S., China, Japan ...
• Fed chairman: U.S. economy will rebound
Bernanke, along with Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the European Central Bank, and Toshihiko Fukui, governor of the Bank of Japan, fielded questions from conference attendees. On China, Bernanke and Trichet both called on Beijing to let its ...
• U.S.: N. Korea continues nuke restoration
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and the other nations in the six-party nuclear talks that also involve China, Japan and Russia. "We had a lot of catching up to do and needless to say, there have been a lot of problems in the six-party process. So ...
• Stocks tumble after House OKs bailout plan
Declining issues outnumbered advancers by about 2 to 1 on the New York Stock Exchange, where volume came to 1.42 billion shares. Overseas, Japan’s Nikkei stock average fell 1.94 percent. Britain’s FTSE 100 rose 2.26 percent, Germany’s DAX index ...
• Bridgestone Firestone seeks recalled tires
Bridgestone Firestone North American Tire, the Nashville, Tenn.-based subsidiary of Japan’s Bridgestone Corp., said its 2000-01 recall had been highly successful, replacing about 95 percent of the 6.5 million tires involved. Safety officials said ...