The Institute of International Education in New York says last year's top five were India, China, South Korea, Japan and Canada.

VOA: special.2009.01.08

Toyota is Japan's biggest company and in two thousand eight it passed General Motors as the world's biggest carmaker.

VOA: special.2010.02.26

The crisis at Japan's Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear energy center has raised questions about the future of the nuclear energy industry.

VOA: special.2011.03.18

Many voters were dissatisfied with the L.D.P.and its reaction to Japan's worst recession since the Second World War.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

And, finally, Joruji from Japan commented on our story about the Goodwill organization's job training program for immigrants.

VOA: special.2011.07.29

Japan's desire to use East Asia to gain natural resources and sell manufactured products was in direct conflict with American plans for Asia.

VOA: special.2011.05.26

Japan's parliament is expected to vote on September sixteenth to make Yukio Hatoyama the next prime minister.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

Also from Japan, Mai Susuki noted that Wilma Mankiller's actions helped change what people thought of the roles for women in her society.

VOA: special.2010.04.23

Factory labor built China into the world's third largest economy, after the United States and Japan.

VOA: special.2010.06.18

We shall continue to use it, until we completely destroy Japan's power to make war.

VOA: special.2009.06.14

Costas Synolakis says Japan's concrete sea walls were not built to handle such high waves.

VOA: special.2011.03.21

In nineteen ninety-three, he won Japan's Culture Design Prize for the Rokko housing project.

VOA: special.2011.04.13

The organizers say the show questions Japan's love for cuteness, called kawaii in Japanese.

VOA: special.2011.04.08

It was the first growth in Japan's economy in fifteen months.

VOA: special.2009.08.21

Japan has the world's second largest economy after the United States.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

Yasumichi Tanaka sells fish at one of Japan's busiest fish markets.

VOA: special.2011.03.29

Yasuhisa Kawamura is Japan's deputy consul general in New York.

VOA: special.2011.03.31

Japan's next leader says his policies are not anti-American.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

Japan is the world's biggest importer of rare earths.

VOA: special.2010.10.08

He is one of Japan's wealthiest lawmakers.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

Japan has the world's second largest economy.

VOA: special.2009.08.21