Ronald E. Yates

It is 7:30 a.m. and Tokyo`s infamous morning rush hour is at its peak with 11 million commuters pouring into the world`s largest city via a vast network of elevated...

Hiroshi Kume, 45, not only is Japan`s most popular news anchor, but also is responsible, more than anybody else in Japan, for nudging television news from its bleak talking-head stage...

On a sultry August day 44 years ago, the Imperial Japanese government announced it was surrendering to Allied forces, bringing World War II to an end. For some Japanese it...

South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan, who came to power with a bang following a military coup in 1980, left office with a sigh Wednesday, saying he was grateful to...

Following a month-long presidential campaign and an election last week that left voters emotionally drained, the opposition a shambles and the government in its strongest position ever, millions of South...

The time has come for Japan to stop talking and start implementing ''drastic policies'' to expand its domestic demand and open its markets to American products, U.S. Trade Representative Clayton...

At 5:30 a.m. last Thursday Mitsuo Asakawa, his wife, two children and mother-in-law climbed aboard the Chuo commuter train and settled back for the two-hour ride that would take them...

The Japanese government will send a team of 10 experts to Washington next week to hammer out the framework for Japan`s participation in President Reagan`s Strategic Defense Initiative amid concerns...

Not long after the Tokyo economic summit ended, a popular cartoon strip in the Asahi Shimbun newspaper showed a glum Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone sitting down to a ''Last Supper''...

In 1976, Kim Woo Choong, founder and chairman of South Korea`s $8 billion-a-year multinational Daewoo Group, received a call from President Park Chung Hee asking him to take over a...