TOKYO, July 15 (Kyodo) - Japan will again demand that North Korea hold talks on its pledge to reinvestigate cases of its abductions of Japanese nationals, Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura

TOKYO, July 15 Kyodo - The Bank of Japan started its two-day policy meeting Monday amid expectations that the central bank will downgrade its estimate for the country's economic growth in the curre

TOKYO, July 15 (Kyodo) - Japan's lay judge system will effectively start Tuesday, with all of the 50 district courts and their 10 branches set to embark on a procedure to file lists of candidates f

TOKYO, July 15 (Kyodo) - Local governments and municipalities across Japan, hampered by fiscal constraints, are slow in adopting an alarm system designed to provide instantaneous notification of ea

TOKYO, July 15 (Kyodo) - The Children's Investment Fund said Monday it has decided to accept a Japanese government order barring the British hedge fund from acquiring a larger stake in Electric Pow

TOKYO, July 15 (Kyodo) - Executives of the largest opposition Democratic Party of Japan decided Monday to hold the party's presidential election on Sept.

TOKYO, July 14 Kyodo - The Japan Fisheries Cooperatives and 16 other major fisheries groups will have all member fishermen suspend operations on Tuesday in an attempt to raise public awareness of t

MANILA, July 15 (Kyodo) - Sixteen ageing sons and daughters of Japanese men who lived, worked or fought in the Philippines before and during World War II will leave for Tokyo on Tuesday to appeal t

TOKYO, July 15 Kyodo - Japan decided Monday to refer to two uninhabited islets disputed with South Korea in the Sea of Japan in a teaching guideline for junior high schools, making it the first tim

TOKYO, July 13 Kyodo - Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda informed South Korean President Lee Myung Bak during their talks in Hokkaido last Wednesday of Japan's plan to state in an educational document th