TOYAMA, Japan, May 5 Kyodo - The death toll in a string of food poisoning cases believed to be caused by consuming raw meat at a ''yakiniku'' barbecue restaurant chain has risen to four after a 70-

HANOI, May 5 Kyodo - Japan called Thursday for ''mainstreaming'' disaster prevention in the Asia-Pacific development agenda in the wake of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that devastated northe

BEIJING, May 4 Kyodo - A group of Japanese parliamentarians called on Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping on Wednesday to help Japan's reconstruction from the March disasters by easing restrictions o

IITATE, Japan, May 4 Kyodo - An Australian livestock producers' group invited two villagers from Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture, on Wednesday to next week's fundraising event in Sydney to help disast

TOKYO, May 4 Kyodo - Tokyo Electric Power Co.

FUKUSHIMA, Japan, May 3 Kyodo - Municipal authorities on Tuesday rehearsed an operation to guide evacuees during temporary visits to their homes in the off-limits zone around the crippled Fukushima

TOKYO, May 3 Kyodo - Radiation readings have risen to 100-1,000 times the normal level on the Pacific seabed near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, the operator said Tuesday.

TOKYO, May 3 Kyodo - The government is planning to seek contributions from the electric power industry for an envisaged entity to help Tokyo Electric Power Co.

TOKYO, May 3 Kyodo - The government assumed a worst-case scenario of ''significant public exposure'' to radiation when workers were struggling to bring a nuclear reactor under control at the Fukus

TOKYO (Kyodo) - Sales of new vehicles including minivehicles in Japan marked the largest fall of 47.3 percent in April from a year earlier to 185,673 units in the wake of the devastating March 11 e