Tokyo, June 30 (Jiji Press)--Government representatives of Britain and France, both nuclear weapons states, are expected to attend this year's peace memorial ceremonies in Hiroshima and Nagasaki to

Tokyo, June 29 (Jiji Press)--People aged 65 or over accounted for 23.1 pct of Japan's population, the government's official census survey for 2010 showed Wednesday.

The Naha District Public Prosecutors Office on Tuesday decided again not to indict a Chinese fisherman whose trawler hit Japan Coast Guard ships in September last year.

Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said Monday that the enactment of three important bills, including the government's fiscal 2011 second supplementary budget, will represent certain progress that n

Relations between the United States and Japan "are firmly back on track" after a ministerial security meeting earlier this week, a senior U.S. diplomat said Friday.

Tokyo, June 24 (Jiji Press)--Stocks ended a directionless session slightly higher on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Friday morning, helped by short covering in the absence of fresh domestic trading clues

Tokyo (Jiji Press) - The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said Wednesday it has made positioning signals from its "Michibiki" satellite publicly available to complement the U.S.

Tokyo (Jiji Press) - Speculation continues about whether Tokyo Electric Power Co.

Tokyo, June 17 (Jiji Press)--Japan's parliament enacted a set of bills Friday to punish computer virus creation even if no damage has been inflicted, as part of an effort to strengthen crackdown ag

Tokyo, June 15 (Jiji Press)--An international team of researchers said Wednesday it has become the world's first to detect signs of the type of neutrino oscillations that had remained undetected so