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

TOKYO, July 15 (Kyodo) - The government retained its assessment of the current state of the Japanese economy Monday, indicating a pause in Japan's economic recovery with weak movements in exports a

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