TOKYO, July 1 Kyodo - The food served up in company dining halls used to be cheap but was not quite as good as employees had hoped for.

TOKYO, July 1 Kyodo - Kunio Mikuriya, who was elected to the top post of the Brussels-based World Customs Organization on Saturday, said Monday that he aims to reflect the voice

BEIJING, July Kyodo - A group of envoys from the Dalai Lama arrived in Beijing on Monday for talks with Chinese government officials aimed at easing tension after Tibet and neighboring provin

KYOTO, June 28 Kyodo - Japan and Germany agreed on the need for international assistance to help stabilize the Afghanistan-Pakistan border area and expressed concern over violence in Zimbabwe in fo

SAGA, Japan, June 28 Kyodo - The Saga District Court on Friday ordered the state to open the Isahaya Bay dike in Nagasaki Prefecture for five years, ruling in favor of some 2,500 fishermen who cla

TOKYO, June 28 Kyodo - The key Japanese consumer price index rose 1.5 percent in May from a year earlier, the fastest increase in more than 15 years, as worldwide inflationary pressure pushed

TOKYO, June 28 Kyodo - Japan's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate stood at 4.0 percent in May, unchanged from the previous month, but the number of jobless people logged the

TOKYO, June 28 Kyodo - The largest number of companies, whose previous fiscal year ended March 31, held their shareholders meetings for the business year on Friday amid increasing attendance of act

TOKYO, June 28 Kyodo - Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair urged Group of Eight leaders on Friday to agree to last year's Japan proposal to halve global greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 during

KYOTO, June 28 Kyodo - The Group of Eight foreign ministers urgently issued a joint statement Friday expressing ''grave concern'' over the situation in Zimbabwe and urging the African nation t