Japan

The United States has for years been intercepting phone calls between Japanese officials on sensitive issues including trade, climate change and bilateral relations, according to a cache of cables that anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks released Friday. With American and Japanese officials...

HURON (AP) — A group of South Dakota Boy Scouts is heading to Japan for a gathering of more than 30,000 Scouts from around the world. KSFY-TV reports Troop 222 in Huron is the only South Dakota group headed to the 23rd World Scout Jamboree. Boy Scouts from dozens of countries...

SIOUX FALLS (AP) — A young giraffe from a South Dakota zoo is about to begin an overseas trip to a new home. The almost 2-year-old giraffe from the Great Plains Zoo and Delbridge Museum of Natural History in Sioux Falls is being sent to Zoorasia in Yokohama, Japan. Elizabeth...

WASHINGTON — President Obama landed in Japan on Wednesday night and delivered an important message on behalf of the American people. “That’s some good sushi right there,” he said. Indeed it was. The president had just dined at Sukiyabashi Jiro, where the Michelin three-star...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- Japan's decision to ease restrictions on U.S. beef imports will provide a boost to the American meat industry, but tight supplies may limit how much exports can grow this year. Beef producers hope to restore Japanese sales to where they were before the first case...

PIERRE (AP) -- Japan's ambassador to the United States says he wants to see his nation conduct more business with South Dakota. Ambassador Ichiro Fujisaki met Monday with South Dakota Gov.

TOKYO -- Wheat prices in Japan, Asia's second-largest importer, may decline in April by the most since October 2009, putting food makers including Yamazaki Baking and Nisshin Seifun Group under pressure to cut prices. The price of wheat imported by the government for sale to flour...