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

TOKYO, July 12 Kyodo - Japan plans to ask China to scrap a ban on the entry of leprosy sufferers to the country during the Beijing Olympic Games when they hold a bilateral dialogue on human rights

TOKYO, July 12 Kyodo - Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda's chairing of the Group of Eight summit failed to substantially spur the sagging public support rate for his Cabinet, which rose to 26.8 percent i

BEIJING, July 12 Kyodo - Top nuclear negotiators from six countries agreed Saturday to try to verify a list of nuclear programs North Korea disclosed last month by carrying out site visits, reviewi

BEIJING, July 11 Kyodo - Chief nuclear negotiators from six countries agreed Friday in Beijing on the principles of creating a mechanism to verify North Korea's declaration of its nuclear programs,

TOKYO, July 11 Kyodo - Shinsei Bank said Friday it will acquire a Tokyo-based financial arm of General Electric Co.

TOKYO, July 11 Kyodo - A book released nearly 80 years ago and considered a representative piece of proletarian literature is apparently striking a chord with young part-time workers amid growing i

TOKYO, July 11 Kyodo - Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga said Friday he believes Japan's consumption tax rate should be raised in two or three stages from the current 5 percent to reach a double-di

AOMORI, Japan, July 11 Kyodo - Prosecutors filed an indictment against two members of Greenpeace Japan for trespassing and stealing whale meat, which the conservation group presented to law-enforce

BEIJING, July 11 Kyodo - Japan urged North Korea on Friday in Beijing to promptly make good on a promise it made last month to reinvestigate the issue of its past abductions of Japanese nationals,