TOKYO (Kyodo) - Japan and France agreed Thursday that they will cooperate in crafting new international nuclear safety standards by the end of this year, following the continuing crisis at the Fuku

TOKYO, March 30 Kyodo - Tokyo Electric Power Co.

TOKYO, March 30 Kyodo - The industry ministry ordered utility companies Wednesday to act within a month to prepare for a possible loss of power at their nuclear reactors when hit by unexpectedly la

TOKYO, March 30 Kyodo -Efforts to remove radiation-contaminated water filling up at a troubled reactor building and an underground trench connected to it at the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear

TOKYO, March 30 Kyodo - All seven civics textbooks that were newly approved for use at junior high schools from April next year describe the disputed Senkaku Islands and Takeshima islets as Japanes

TOKYO, March 30 Kyodo - A worker who engaged in efforts to regain control of the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has questioned safety precautions taken by the operator for workers,

NANJING, China, March 30 Kyodo - Finance ministers, central bankers, academics and economists from the Group of 20 developed and developing countries are set to hold a meeting Thursday in Nanjing,

OSAKA, March 29 Kyodo - A star-studded soccer match provided the first major sports entertainment Tuesday for people suffering in the aftermath of Japan's worst-ever quake and tsunami disaster on M

FUKUSHIMA, Japan, March 29 Kyodo - Each of the employees of Tokyo Electric Power Co.

TOKYO, March 29 Kyodo - Radioactive water has not been confirmed to have overflowed into the Pacific from seaside underground trenches at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Japan's