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Mazda Motor is not seeking a new alliance with another auto manufacturer following Ford's recent decision to reduce its stake in the Japanese automaker.

The admission overshadows a good profit report for its fiscal third quarter. But the quarterly report covers a period before the gas-pedal recall and others, so the profit is likely to be short-lived as Toyota scrambles to make repairs and rebuild its reputation.

With profits down 19 percent in its theme parks, the Walt Disney Company (DIS) needs to expand internationally in order to grow in these tough economic times. So where is it looking? Shanghai, China will be the next location for a Disney-style theme park. If built to full capacity, the new park...

Chicago's bid to host the 2016 Olympic Games was eliminated in the first round of voting in Copenhagen, losing to Rio de Janeiro. The results of the final vote were announced at 12:50 p.m. EDT. To those who haven't been paying much attention, it's probably a huge surprise that Chicago was knocked...

It's not only that Tokyo, Japan, has a reputation for being one of the most expensive cities in the world. It's also that the culture gap can be daunting for novice travelers. Should Americans of modest means just keep away? In the latest of our ongoing series, WalletPop punches a hole through...

If you can't afford to live in Tokyo or Osaka, which are the world's two most expensive cities to live in, then maybe you can make due with a short visit to these beautiful places. Well, that would be expensive, too. But Japan is such a culturally and environmentally rich and wondrous country that...

In Tokyo, it's called "Operation Flower." I, too, have observed the phenomenon: Pretty flowers deter crime. And in Suginami City, a district of Tokyo, there's pretty amazing data to back up the theories. After a shameful year of break-ins in 2002 -- 1,710 in an area with a population of about...

UBS (UBS) blames a computer glitch for placing off-hour buy and sell orders of Capcom Co. (CCOEF) convertible bonds worth $31 billion (3 trillion yen) and due to mature on March 31. That was 100,000 times more than it intended. The trade was canceled at no cost to UBS by the Tokyo Stock Exchange,...