ASUNCION (Kyodo) - Japan proposed Wednesday launching a dialogue with Mercosur, the four-nation South American trade bloc, to boost economic relations and explore the possibility of signing a free
NARITA (Kyodo) - A senior Japanese official who held talks Wednesday with Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi said Thursday upon her return home that Tokyo plans to offer aid to the Sou
HIROSHIMA (Kyodo) - Hiroshima will seek to host the next U.N. conference to review the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 2015, the 70th anniversary of the 1945 U.S.
TOKYO (Kyodo) - Vice foreign ministers of Japan and South Korea agreed Thursday to seek an inter-Korean dialogue on denuclearizing North Korea and to cooperate on the reconstruction of areas devast
YANGON Kyodo - A senior Japanese official on Wednesday conveyed to Myanmar pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi Tokyo's plan to support further democratization of the Southeast Asian nation, diploma
TOKYO (Kyodo) - Japan's farm ministry plans to recommend the nation's food culture as a UNESCO-designated intangible cultural heritage, ministry officials said Wednesday.
OSAKA (Kyodo) - Shareholders rejected antinuclear proposals at the annual general meetings of three Japanese power utilities Wednesday following a similar development at Tokyo Electric Power Co.
ULAN BATOR (Kyodo) - A photo taken by Japan's Kyodo News following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan's northeastern region was chosen Wednesday as the best image among those
TAIPEI (Kyodo) - Two Taiwanese activists were aboard a fishing boat that was spotted Wednesday morning near the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, the Taiwan Coast Guard Administration
TOKYO (Kyodo) - Public support for embattled Prime Minister Naoto Kan's Cabinet fell sharply to 23.2 percent, a Kyodo News survey showed Wednesday, with 66.3 percent of the respondents saying he ha
