TOKYO, March 4 Kyodo - Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara said Friday that Japan is greatly concerned about China's plan to sharply boost its military spending in 2011.

TOKYO, March 4 Kyodo - The Defense Ministry said Friday it will dispatch a minesweeper and 30 to 40 medical officers of the Self-Defense Forces to a U.S.

TOKYO, March 4 Kyodo - Embattled Prime Minister Naoto Kan faced a new headache Friday after two of his ministers admitted to receiving dubious donations, at a time when the premier is trying to sec

TOKYO, March 4 Kyodo - Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara said Friday he received a donation from a foreign national in violation of the Japanese law banning such contribution, clouding the outlook for

TOKYO, March 4 Kyodo - The head of the U.N.

TOKYO, March 4 Kyodo - Visiting French trade minister Pierre Lellouche on Friday welcomed Japanese budget airlines' orders for Airbus aircraft, but said the development is not enough to determine t

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CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand, March 3 Kyodo - The search for survivors from last week's devastating earthquake in New Zealand's Christchurch has changed to a grim effort to recover bodies from rubble,

TOKYO, March 3 Kyodo - Japan on Thursday spurned Russia's protest against its decision not to take criminal action against right-wing activists who reportedly desecrated a Russian flag outside the

TOKYO, March 3 Kyodo - The government and major chemical maker Showa Denko K.K.