DEAUVILLE, France, May 27 Kyodo - Leaders from the Group of Eight major powers agreed Friday on the need to better define international standards for nuclear safety and further cooperate in assisti

DEAUVILLE, France, May 27 Kyodo - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan voiced regret Friday over a recent visit by Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov to disputed islands off Hokkaido in a mee

TOKYO, May 28 Kyodo - Turkey hopes to reach an agreement with Japan by the end of this year on the construction of a nuclear power plant at its northern coastal city of Sinop, Turkish Ambassador to

TOKYO, May 27 Kyodo - A group of experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency on a fact-finding mission into Japan's worst nuclear accident inspected on Friday the crippled Fukushima Daiichi

TOKYO, May 27 Kyodo - After three straight years in the red, Sony Corp.

TOKYO, May 27 Kyodo - A senior member of the Vietnamese Communist Party, who is widely expected to become the nation's president in July, will make a four-day visit to Japan from Wednesday to discu

TOKYO, May 27 Kyodo - An expert on nuclear reactors on Friday downplayed the possibility that melted nuclear fuel believed to be at the bottom of the pressure vessels for the crippled nuclear react

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TOKYO, May 26 Kyodo - Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Thursday it had continued injecting seawater into its No.

TOKYO, May 26 Kyodo - Japan will pursue recovery from the devastating March 11 quake and tsunami by keeping its economy open and drawing investment and workforces from around the world, Foreign Min