TOKYO (Kyodo) - Of 46 local governments hosting or located close to current and future nuclear power plants in Japan, 41 percent said they will await further public and government discussions befor

FUKUSHIMA (Kyodo) - Fukushima Gov. Yuhei Sato said Friday he will never allow Tokyo Electric Power Co.

TOKYO (Kyodo) - The government on Friday added some towns outside a 20-kilometer radius of the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to the list of areas covered by its evacuation direct

TOKYO (Kyodo) - The Cabinet of Prime Minister Naoto Kan adopted Friday a draft extra budget of 4.02 trillion yen (some $50 billion) for fiscal 2011, struggling to secure funds for the early phase o

TOKYO (Kyodo) - The Cabinet agreed to cut Japan's foreign aid allocation for fiscal 2011 by 50.1 billion yen from the initially set 572.7 billion yen Friday as it approved a draft first extra budge

TOKYO (Kyodo) - The Bank of Japan will downwardly revise its forecast for the country's economic growth in fiscal 2011 amid the negative impact from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, sources clo

TOKYO (Kyodo) - Visiting Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard underlined her country's antiwhaling status Friday as she said Canberra has no intention of halting its legal action to permanently

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