Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso laughs as he attends the extraordinary diet session at the Japanese parliament in Tokyo Friday, Aug. 2, 2013. Aso refused Friday to resign or apologize over remarks ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso said on Monday that Tokyo is ready to intervene in the currency market if yen moves are volatile enough to hurt the country's trade and economy.

On September 24, Taro Aso became the new Japanese prime minister and the country's fourth ruler in three years. Aso's foreign policy views are more in line with the U.S. than those of his predecessor, ...

Liberal Democratic Party leader Taro Aso became Japan’s 59th prime minister after sweeping a Sept. 24 vote in Parliament. His chief order of business will be to restore public confidence in the LDP as ...

Tokyo, Sep 14 (EFE).Tokyo, Sep 14 (EFE). — Mount Aso, the largest active volcano in Japan, erupted on Monday, forcing the evacuation of 30 people and changes to flight schedules, but no injuries have ...

"If I dissolved the lower house immediately, would that be an effective economic policy?" asked Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso last week. "Politics would halt for two months." Japan's people, given ...

TOKYO (Reuters) – Finance Minister Taro Aso said on Friday that Japan’s long-term interest rates are abnormally low, after the benchmark 10-year bond yield fell to 0.54 percent, a 15-month low, ...

Consider the situation in Tokyo today. Japan's economy is teetering on the brink of recession. Consumer confidence is hitting lows not seen in years. The population is graying and shrinking. And ...

Japan’s ruling party is betting on a little attitude going a long way. On Sept. 22, the Liberal Democratic Party gave itself a personality injection by electing Taro Aso, a Roman Catholic, ...

New eruptions at Japan's Aso have become intense enough to cause some flight cancellations in and out of Kumamoto. The Asosan caldera is one of the Japan's more active volcanic cluster and since 2003, ...