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On Monday, the government of Japan accepted budget requests from its various ministries. Of particular interest, the Defense Ministry submitted a 5.1 trillion yen ($42 billion) budget request for the year beginning next April – a 2.2 percent increase from last year's budget request. Japan...

A strong line-up of products, good customer demand and ongoing diplomatic tensions between Beijing and Tokyo have apparently helped Ford (NYSE: F) reach record sales figures in China. Ford's China division sold nearly 936,000 wholesale vehicles last year, a 49 percent increase from 2012....