Tokyo - Japan's government is assembling relief supplies as it awaits a request from China to dispatch rescue teams to earthquake-stricken Sichuan province, media reports said Tuesday.

Tokyo  - Fujitsu Ltd saw its operating profit jump 12.6 per cent in fiscal 2007, which ended in March, to 204.99 billion yen (1.99 billion dollars) on strong sales, the company said Monday.

Tokyo  - Stocks inched down Monday in Tokyo due

Niigata, Japan  - The labour ministers of eight of the world's most powerful economies gathered in th