TOKYO (Kyodo) - Thousands of antinuclear protesters took to the streets across Japan Saturday as the country's worst nuclear crisis ran into its fourth month since the March 11 earthquake and tsuna

TOKYO (Kyodo) - Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Saturday it began operating ventilation equipment with filters to absorb radioactive materials to reduce radiation levels inside the No.

WASHINGTON (Kyodo) - Goshi Hosono, an adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan, indicated Friday that Japan should find ways to dispose of nuclear waste and radiation-contaminated debris inside

SENDAI (Kyodo) - Events to commemorate the passing of three months since the deadly earthquake and tsunami took place Saturday in disaster-hit areas of northeastern Japan, where more than 15,400 pe

KITAKYUSHU (Kyodo) - Whaling vessels left the ports of Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, and Habu in Onomichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, on Saturday to conduct scientific research in the northwest Pac

TOKYO, June 10 Kyodo - Industry minister Banri Kaieda said Friday that Japan's overall economy would see a ''large impact'' if utility firms in western Japan cannot resume operations of their nucle

TOKYO, June 10 Kyodo - The labor ministry ordered Tokyo Electric Power Co.

OSAKA, June 10 Kyodo - Kansai Electric Power Co.

TSUKUBA, Japan, June 10 Kyodo - A pot enabling users to charge their cellphones by boiling water in disaster situations will go on sale later this month.

MOSCOW, June 10 Kyodo - Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa and two other astronauts from Russia and the United States arrived Friday at the International Space Station and began their five-month m