TOKYO (Kyodo) - Japanese Emperor Akihito offered his condolences Wednesday to visiting Pakistani President Asif Zardari on the floods that caused heavy damaged in Pakistan last year, the Imperial H

AOMORI (Kyodo) - Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Hirohide Yamaguchi said Wednesday he does not feel that the central bank needs to review its outlook for the Japanese economy amid rising crude oil an

TOKYO (Kyodo) - The Japanese Institute of Cetacean Research expects its whale meat sales revenues in the year to September 2011 to fall 16.5 percent from the previous year due to obstruction of Jap

TOKYO - (Kyodo) - Prime Minister Naoto Kan warned Wednesday against delaying parliamentary passage of the fiscal 2011 budget and related bills, saying Japan must avoid ''pouring cold water on the e

TOKYO (Kyodo) - The Supreme Public Prosecutors Office said Wednesday that prosecutors in charge of criminal investigations in Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya will start audiovisual recording of interrogati

TOKYO, Feb. 22 Kyodo -

TOKYO, Feb. 22 Kyodo -

TOKYO, Feb. 22 Kyodo -

TOKYO, Feb. 21 Kyodo -
The government on Monday revised upward its assessment of the Japanese economy

TOKYO, Feb. 21 Kyodo -
Prime Minister Naoto Kan said Monday he has a keen desire to remain in power to