TOKYO (Kyodo) - A planned visit to the United States by Prime Minister Naoto Kan could be delayed until July or later due to the lack of tangible progress on the issue of relocating the Futenma air

TOKYO (Kyodo) - The government is compiling a road map to clarify how it will restore areas affected by the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant and allow evacuated people to return

TOKYO (Kyodo) - Two reactors at nuclear power plants in Hokkaido and Fukui Prefecture have been in limbo in the final phase of their regular checkups in which they generate power as usual for tests

TOKYO (Kyodo) - A worker at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant died Saturday after collapsing while carrying materials as part of crisis-fighting operations, with a heart attack sus

TOKYO (Kyodo) - Industry minister Banri Kaieda said Friday it is necessary to review the restoration road map unveiled last month for the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant by its operator,

TOKYO (Kyodo) - Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima said Friday a proposal by influential U.S. senators to scrap a stalled relocation plan for a U.S.

MOSCOW (Kyodo - Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said Friday he will soon head a government delegation to visit islands at the core of a Japan-Russia territorial row, Interfax news agenc

TOKYO (Kyodo) - A highly radioactive substance was detected in incinerator ashes at a sewage plant in eastern Tokyo in late March, shortly after the start of the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Dai

SHIZUOKA (Kyodo) - Chubu Electric Power Co.

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