As a cosmopolitan man of letters, Inoue Yasushi established a reputation as a poet, journalist, and fiction writer, although he is best known as a novelist. He was a major introducer and interpreter of the Silk Road phenomenon in Japan, and as...

Japan plans measures to stimulate the economy through cutting the discount rate and encouraging banks to lend, a matter about which they have been conservative, hurting the stock market. There is also some speculation that the yen may be devalued. A COMFORTING promise...

JAPAN, THE founding country of judo, is accustomed to producing accomplished champions of the sport, but only once a generation does it produce a fighter like the light-heavyweight Kosei Inoue. World champion two years ago (in Birmingham) at the age of 21, Olympic champion...