TOKYO, March 10 Kyodo - A Democratic Party of Japan lawmaker, who has close ties with Prime Minister Naoto Kan, came under heavy fire Thursday from opposition parties for signing a document that si

BEIJING, March 10 Kyodo - The Chinese Foreign Ministry dismissed Thursday a Japanese newspaper report quoting a state-run oil company official as saying China had unilaterally begun gas production

NAHA, Japan, March 10 Kyodo - Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima on Thursday protested comments by senior U.S.

TOKYO, March 10 Kyodo - The Japanese economy shrank at a faster pace than earlier thought in the last quarter of 2010, the government said Thursday, revising downward the nation's gross domestic pr

TOKYO (Kyodo) - New Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto, the successor of Seiji Maehara, pledged Wednesday that he will take over his predecessor's unfulfilled missions of deepening the Japan-U.S.

(Kyodo) - Japan's top government spokesman voiced strong regret Wednesday over a report that China has unilaterally started gas production in a field in a disputed area of the East China Sea, but C

(Kyodo) - A tax break extension bill proposed by the Democratic Party of Japan is expected to be passed by the Diet by the end of the current fiscal year after securing the support of the second-la

(Kyodo) - The Nago city assembly in Okinawa Prefecture unanimously adopted a resolution Wednesday criticizing comments attributed to a senior U.S.

TOKYO (Kyodo) - The Japanese Foreign Ministry said Wednesday it has confirmed the deaths of two more Japanese caused by the powerful earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, after the first case co

TOKYO (Kyodo) - Twenty-seven refugees from Myanmar, who arrived in Japan from Thailand last fall under a U.N.-promoted third country resettlement program, completed a six-month orientation and lang