TOKYO (Kyodo) - Some Cabinet members indicated Tuesday that Japan should continue with nuclear power generation, after Italians overwhelmingly rejected their government's proposal to resume nuclear

TOKYO (Kyodo) - The Bank of Japan on Tuesday stepped up its efforts to boost the country's economy, which has been flagging since the earthquake and tsunami in March, introducing a 500 billion yen

TOKYO (Kyodo) - The government on Tuesday submitted to parliament a bill to help Tokyo Electric Power Co.

HONG KONG (Kyodo) - Chinese workers are exploited when they work in developed countries such as Japan despite comprehensive labor export regulations, the China Labour Bulletin said Tuesday.

TOKYO (Kyodo) - Japan's core private-sector machinery orders in April lost 3.3 percent from the previous month, marking an unexpected fall and adding to the view that reconstruction work following

TOKYO (Kyodo) - Six more workers involved in efforts to contain the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant are feared to have been exposed to radiation above the prescribed limit, Toky

TOKYO (Kyodo) - The likelihood of Prime Minister Naoto Kan succumbing to strong pressure for his resignation as early as this month increased Monday, following calls from within his own government

TOKYO (Kyodo) - Radioactive strontium up to 240 times the legal concentration limit has been detected in seawater samples collected near an intake at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, T

TOKYO (Kyodo) - Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Sunday called for ''fundamental reform'' of Japan's electric power industry amid the nuclear crisis at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant.

NEW YORK (Kyodo) - An antinuclear protest organized by Japanese people took place in New York on Saturday, three months after a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and ensuing tsunami triggered a nuclear cris