What's new is Japan's willingness to confront regional threats and to participate in military operations thousands of miles offshore.
South Korea's and Japan's new helicopter carriers could also one day be useful for moving troops in United Nations peacekeeping operations.
Japan's new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has promised steps to weaken the yen to help revive Japan's sluggish economy.
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.
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 most recently copycatted Honda's march of new models in Japan: Honda's Stream minivan was matched by Toyota's Wish, its Step Wagon by Toyota's Voxy and Noah small minivans, and its Fit compact by Toyota's Vitz.
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Encouraging economic reports from outside the U.S. and new highs on Germany and Japan's stock markets helped push markets up on Tuesday.
The new president of Japan's Oki Electric Industry, Katsumasa Shinozuka, speaks with evangelical zeal about computer-telephony integration.
The December election of Mr. Abe, however, has bred new life into Japan's nuclear-power program and the prospects for the Rokkasho facility, said government and industry officials.
Two days later, after cursory debate, the lower house of parliament passed a new law allowing Japan's ailing life insurers to cut the rates of return they guaranteed to policyholders, and thus to break unprofitable contracts.
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.
Alas, none of Japan's new budget carriers is expected to be as cut-throat as low-cost carriers elsewhere.
With his sharp suits and his flair for political theatre, his style borrows heavily from the most popular of Japan's new governors.
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.
Several new entrepreneurs are over Japan's traditional retirement age.
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.
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