TOKYO, April 3 Kyodo - The government expects that several months may be required before radioactive particles stop being released from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, its top spokesman said S

FUKUSHIMA, Japan, April 3 Kyodo - Japan will likely need to craft the second extra budget for fiscal 2011 in June or July to finance reconstruction work after the massive earthquake in March, a sen

TOKYO, April 3 Kyodo - Workers tried Sunday to block the leakage of highly radioactive water into the sea from the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant by injecting polymeric water absorbent

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan, April 3 Kyodo - Around 500 evacuees left the tsunami-ravaged town of Minamisanriku in Miyagi Prefecture on Sunday as the Self-Defense Forces and other rescue workers continued

TOKYO, April 3 Kyodo -The ongoing nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, crippled by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, has forced other Japanese utility firms to put off re

TOKYO, April 2 Kyodo - Water with high levels of radiation has been confirmed to have seeped into the sea from the No.

FUKUSHIMA, Japan, April 2 Kyodo - Prime Minister Naoto Kan visited an operation base Saturday in Fukushima Prefecture to encourage Self-Defense Forces members, firefighters and other workers in th

TOKYO, April 2 Kyodo - Foreign survivors of last month's catastrophic earthquake and tsunami in Japan and their supporters are seeking information in multiple languages in order to avoid uncertaint

TOKYO, April 2 Kyodo - Japan and Germany agreed Saturday that they will work toward enhancing nuclear safety standards in the wake of a crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi atomic power station caused b

TOKYO (Kyodo) - Business confidence among major Japanese firms improved slightly in March from three months earlier, the Bank of Japan said Friday, while signaling a possible deterioration in senti