SAO PAULO/TOKYO Nissan Motor Co has filed a court claim against Carlos Ghosn's sister that references alleged "unjust enrichment", escalating a battle being waged in Brazilian courts between the car maker and its once-celebrated former chairman.
* Board meeting planned on Thursday afternoon - Nissan official
PARIS/TOKYO French carmaker Renault tapped its chief operating officer and a senior board member to fill in for embattled boss Carlos Ghosn, after an investigation by alliance partner Nissan led to his arrest on suspicion of financial misconduct. | Video
TOKYO Nissan Motor Co's shares fell nearly 6 percent on Tuesday as Chairman Carlos Ghosn's arrest a day earlier sent shockwaves through the business world and threw into doubt the future of Japan's No.2 automaker and its global alliance. | Video
TOKYO A powerful earthquake paralyzed Japan's northern island of Hokkaido on Thursday, killing at least seven people, triggering landslides and knocking out power to its 5.3 million residents.
TOKYO The temperature rose to a record 41.1 Celsius (106 Fahrenheit) in a city northwest of Tokyo on Monday, as a heat wave in Japan that has killed at least 23 people and sent thousands to hospital showed no sign of significant easing.
TOKYO Japan is taking emergency steps to boost the number of child welfare workers by 60 percent within five years, spurred by the death of a child whose handwritten notes seeking forgiveness from her abusive parents have shaken the nation.
［東京 ２０日 ロイター］ - 米シリコンバレー式のエンジニア向け訓練校、コードクリサリスのカニ・ムニダサ共同創立者兼最高経営責任者（ＣＥＯ）は２月、日本の財界トップを前に講演し、ソフトウエアが日本企業の未来を脅かしていると警鐘を鳴らした。昨年７月に東京で開設した同校は、日本のソフトウエアエンジニアの水準を世界標準に引き上げるべく、ブートキャンプ（新兵訓練）と呼ばれる集中講座を開いている。
TOKYO Barely six months after inaugurating a tiny software-coding boot camp in a basement in Tokyo, Silicon Valley transplant Kani Munidasa stood before some of Japan's top business leaders in February with a warning: software was threatening their future. | Video
Sri Lankan officials revised the death toll from Easter Sunday bombings down by about 100 on Thursday, blaming the difficulty in identifying body parts at bomb scenes for the earlier inaccurate number.