TOKYO, April 24 Kyodo -
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. submitted the highest offer for Nikko
Cordial Securities Inc. in the second round of bidding conducted by U.S.

TOKYO, April 23 Kyodo - Visiting Mexican Undersecretary for Foreign Trade Beatriz Leycegui expressed concern Thursday that the U.S.

TOKYO, April 23 Kyodo - Mizuho Financial Group Inc.

TOKYO, April 23 Kyodo - Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, a member of the Japanese pop music group SMAP, was arrested Thursday for public indecency after stripping naked while under the influence of alcohol at a

TOKYO, April 23 Kyodo - The House of Representatives passed a government-sponsored antipiracy bill on Thursday without any amendment in the face of opposition by the Democratic Party of Japan and o

TOKYO, April 23 Kyodo - Ground Self-Defense Force personnel will be dispatched to Djibouti by the end of next month to assist Japanese patrol aircraft to be based there for an antipiracy mission of

TOKYO, April 23 Kyodo - The Foreign Ministry said Thursday it has set record high numerical targets for Japan's official development assistance to other Asian economies and Africa in fiscal 2009, a

NEW YORK, April 23 Kyodo - Three or four North Korean entities, including a trade firm and a bank, might be designated by the United Nations for an asset freeze as part of U.N.

TEHRAN, April 23 Kyodo - An American journalist of Japanese descent convicted in Iran of spying for the United States intends to launch a hunger-strike to protest her innocence, her family told Kyo

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