Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said Monday that the enactment of three important bills, including the government's fiscal 2011 second supplementary budget, will represent certain progress that n

Relations between the United States and Japan "are firmly back on track" after a ministerial security meeting earlier this week, a senior U.S. diplomat said Friday.

Tokyo, June 24 (Jiji Press)--Stocks ended a directionless session slightly higher on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Friday morning, helped by short covering in the absence of fresh domestic trading clues

Tokyo (Jiji Press) - The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said Wednesday it has made positioning signals from its "Michibiki" satellite publicly available to complement the U.S.

Tokyo (Jiji Press) - Speculation continues about whether Tokyo Electric Power Co.

Tokyo, June 17 (Jiji Press)--Japan's parliament enacted a set of bills Friday to punish computer virus creation even if no damage has been inflicted, as part of an effort to strengthen crackdown ag

Tokyo, June 15 (Jiji Press)--An international team of researchers said Wednesday it has become the world's first to detect signs of the type of neutrino oscillations that had remained undetected so

Fukushima, June 14 (Jiji Press)--The Fukushima prefectural government plans to build more shelters for pets taken from the nuclear no-entry zone because the existing facility is almost packed, info

Naha, Okinawa Pref., June 13 (Jiji Press)--Japanese Defense Minister Toshimi Kitazawa met with Okinawa Governor Hirokazu Nakaima on Monday to explain the central government's policy on the relocati

Korolev, Russia, June 10 (Jiji Press)--Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa kicked off his five-month-plus stay at the International Space Station early Friday after a Russian spacecraft carrying hi