News stories by Suvendrini Kakuchi, page 12

TOKYO, Dic 16 (IPS) - The thought that her parents would be so proud of her once she finally saves enough to buy a house keeps Imelda going through her gruelling schedule of cleaning houses by day and working as a Tokyo bargirl at night.

TOKYO, Dic 09 (IPS) - The Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) has been suffering a lackluster performance in the past few years, but stock analysts remain unusually upbeat over the erstwhile favourite of companies across the globe.

TOKYO, Dic 02 (IPS) - The two countries that are supposed to provide North Korea with new light-water reactors are trying hard not to lose patience with their beneficiary.

TOKYO, Nov 25 (IPS) - Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Japan had resigned themselves to blending with the background as they beavered away, but their years of being ignored both by the Japanese public and the government seem about to end.

TOKYO, Nov 23 (IPS) - Japan is sprinting ahead of Western governments to re-establish ties with Burma after what Tokyo says were signs that the military junta in Rangoon is considering relaxing its grip on the nation.

TOKYO, Nov 21 (IPS) - Japan has a full year yet before it hosts the 1995 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Osaka, but the Asian economic powerhouse is already feeling jittery.

TOKYO, Nov 16 (IPS) - Japan is determined to become a permanent member of the powerful U.N. Security Council by next year, but its wartime past continues to cast a dark shadow on its ambitions to become a global political leader.

TOKYO, Nov 11 (IPS) - An eye toward expanding business ties with the fast-growing economies of South-east Asia is keeping South Korea from going all out in its support for a proposed free trade zone in the Pacific Rim.

TOKYO, Nov 10 (IPS) - South Korea and Japan are displaying a new show of goodwill toward North Korea, but political analysts here say officials of the two countries are trying hard not to let their grimaces show through the smiles.