TOKYO, Dec. 3 Kyodo - The government, local governments and business enterprises have joined hands to
launch the ''Eco Action Point'' project for consumers to get points and receive

TOKYO, Dec. 3 Kyodo - Japan's signing of a landmark ban on cluster bombs in Oslo on Wednesday
reflected Tokyo's hopes of further highlighting its efforts in humanitarian

OSLO, Dec. 3 Kyodo - Japan joined about 100 other countries in signing a landmark treaty in Oslo on
Wednesday banning the use and stockpiling of cluster bombs, although major

TOKYO, Dec. 3 Kyodo - Japan will shelve its spending cut policy in compiling the budget for fiscal
2009 in a bid to prioritize stimulus measures over efforts to improve the

TOKYO, Dec. 2 Kyodo - Japan is set to ease conditions from next spring for companies to petition the
government to invoke antidumping and other special tariffs on foreign products

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 Kyodo - Japan must move to loosen its restrictions on collective self-defense in a bid to strengthen its alliance with the United States, according to a report

TOKYO, Dec. 2 Kyodo - Farm minister Shigeru Ishiba on Tuesday unveiled a road map for boosting
Japan's food self-sufficiency rate in calorie terms to 50 percent from the

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TOKYO, Dec. 2 Kyodo - The chief Japanese and U.S.