South Korea's and Japan's new helicopter carriers could also one day be useful for moving troops in United Nations peacekeeping operations.
This week's report includes Larimer's main story on how Japan's new, uncertain generation may be a positive force for the country's renewal.
Japan's new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has promised steps to weaken the yen to help revive Japan's sluggish economy.
Japan's new prime minister, Yoshihiko Noda, has indicated that he will make a new attempt to remove the biggest obstacle in Japan's military relations with America, a stalled agreement over relocating American marines in Okinawa.
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It has prompted China's old enemy, Japan, to move its missiles around and has given Japan's new prime minister the excuse he was looking for to challenge constitutional constraints of the growth of military power.
Alas, none of Japan's new budget carriers is expected to be as cut-throat as low-cost carriers elsewhere.
The system is part of Japan's new push to protect itself from prospective attacks by North Korea and China.
With his sharp suits and his flair for political theatre, his style borrows heavily from the most popular of Japan's new governors.
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Japan's new Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, said quick action is needed if it turns out a test has, in fact, taken place.
Japan's new Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, has promised to take measures to weaken the yen to help revive the country's struggling economy.
It comes after election promises by Japan's new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to boost the economy, and recent monetary stimulus by the central bank.
This is a chance to rebuild for Japan's new demographic structure.
The yen appeared to briefly regain its safe-haven status after four months of almost uninterrupted losses as Japan's new prime minister pushes for aggressive monetary easing.
In the 1990s Mercedes sales were falling in the face of competition from Japan's new luxury brands, Lexus and Infiniti, and dealers weren't investing in their stores.
Japan's new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has called upon the central bank to ease its policies and boost stimulus measures to help revive a sluggish Japanese economy.
The central bank has been under pressure from Japan's new government to take more aggressive steps to fight the long deflationary slump in the world's third largest economy.
Japan's Nikkei Stock Average climbed 2% to the highest level seen since July 2008 as markets reacted to the Bank of Japan's new aggressive efforts to ease monetary policy.
Finance ministers from the G-20 on Friday expressed agreement that Japan needs to support its sluggish economy, and that the Bank of Japan's new monetary policy was aimed at defeating inflation, not weakening the yen.
Lew will also need to calm investors who have grown concerned about possible currency wars after Japan's new government sought to lower the value of the yen as a way to boost exports and its weak economy.
Quantitative easing (QE) was the catch phrase of the day on Tuesday as the markets digest both the Bank of Japan's new and possibly radical asset purchase program and rate reduction pair, and the prospect of further QE by the Fed.
Tobu, a major railway operator in the Tokyo area, doesn't need the funds until June, when existing bonds are due, but it wasted no time in issuing 10-year bonds because Japan's new economic policy, dubbed "Abenomics, " is likely to lead to higher interest rates later.
Japan's stock market continued to rise on a wave of enthusiasm for the Bank of Japan's aggressive new approach to shaking the world's third-largest economy out of its two decade slump.
Japan's popular new prime minister, Junichiro Koizumi, now offers hope that Japan will push ahead with the reforms needed to boost long-term growth.
It is the world's best selling hybrid car and Japan's most popular new car of all.
TOKYO The yen fell to nearly 100 against the U.S. dollar a level it hasn't crossed since April 2009 in Asian trading Monday after Group of 20 officials signaled approval of Japan's aggressive new monetary policy.
The main reason is that Lloyd's had a lower exposure to Japan than to New Zealand - and it is Japan's own insurers that are taking the biggest hit.
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