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

TOKYO, March 29 Kyodo - Pursuit of solar power, bioenergy and other clean energy sources will be a key pillar of the government's reconstruction strategy to be drawn up for areas hit by a massive q

TOKYO, March 29 Kyodo - Japan has received more than 1 billion yen in donations for reconstruction from foreign governments, private-sector groups and individuals as well as 1,300 tons in relief su

SENDAI, March 29 Kyodo - Some secondary school students polled by Kyodo News in the quake-devastated prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima have expressed their hopes of moving on despite the s

TOKYO, March 29 Kyodo - Plutonium has been detected in soil at five locations at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi atomic power plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co.

TOKYO, March 28 Kyodo - A special panel investigating a match-fixing scandal that has floored Japan's ancient sport has recognized that former komusubi Shimotori, Mongolian-born makuuchi-division w

TOKYO, March 28 Kyodo - The government on Monday urged residents of the 20-kilometer exclusion zone around the quake-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant not to return for the time being.

TOKYO, March 27 Kyodo - Japan on Sunday faced an increasing challenge of removing highly radioactive water found inside buildings near some troubled nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant,