TOKYO, July 16 Kyodo - The Bank of Japan held its key interest rate steady in a widely expected move Tuesday while the central bank downgraded its forecast for the country's economic growth for the

TOKYO, July 16 Kyodo - Sixteen Japanese-Filipinos left behind in the Philippines after World War II arrived in Tokyo on Tuesday seeking Japanese citizenship and information on their fathers or rel

TOKYO, July 16 Kyodo - The Tokyo High Court found three former Mitsubishi Motors Corp.

TOKYO, July 16 Kyodo - South Korean Ambassador to Japan Kwon Chul Hyun lodged a protest Tuesday over Japan's decision to mention two disputed islets for the first time in a teaching guideline for j

BEIJING, July 16 (Kyodo) - Japan on Tuesday expressed its concern over China's ban on the entry of leprosy suffers and HIV positive people into the country and urged Beijing to rethinkits position

TOKYO, July 16 Kyodo - Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga left on Tuesday for a weeklong trip to the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Uzbekistan aiming to attract investment to Japan from the resour

TOKYO, July 16 Kyodo - Chinese writer Yang Li's novel, which she wrote in Japanese, won the Akutagawa Prize on Tuesday, making its author the first Chinese to win the prestigious literary award, t

TOKYO, July 16 Kyodo - About 200,000 fishing boats -- almost all the fishery vessels operating in Japan -- halted operations Tuesday in an attempt to raise public awareness of the predicament they

TOKYO, July 15 (Kyodo) - The Tokyo High Court decided Monday to reopen a 1967 murder-robbery case in Tone, Ibaraki Prefecture, citing ''serious'' doubts about the witness accounts and the initial c

SINGAPORE, July 14 Kyodo - North Korea will sign the Association of Southeast Asian Nations' non-aggression treaty on July 24 on the sidelines of an annual gathering offoreign ministers from ASEAN