TOKYO, March 30 Kyodo - A worker who engaged in efforts to regain control of the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has questioned safety precautions taken by the operator for workers,

NANJING, China, March 30 Kyodo - Finance ministers, central bankers, academics and economists from the Group of 20 developed and developing countries are set to hold a meeting Thursday in Nanjing,

OSAKA, March 29 Kyodo - A star-studded soccer match provided the first major sports entertainment Tuesday for people suffering in the aftermath of Japan's worst-ever quake and tsunami disaster on M

FUKUSHIMA, Japan, March 29 Kyodo - Each of the employees of Tokyo Electric Power Co.

TOKYO, March 29 Kyodo - Radioactive water has not been confirmed to have overflowed into the Pacific from seaside underground trenches at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Japan's

TOKYO, March 29 Kyodo - Pursuit of solar power, bioenergy and other clean energy sources will be a key pillar of the government's reconstruction strategy to be drawn up for areas hit by a massive q

TOKYO, March 29 Kyodo - Japan has received more than 1 billion yen in donations for reconstruction from foreign governments, private-sector groups and individuals as well as 1,300 tons in relief su

SENDAI, March 29 Kyodo - Some secondary school students polled by Kyodo News in the quake-devastated prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima have expressed their hopes of moving on despite the s

TOKYO, March 29 Kyodo - Plutonium has been detected in soil at five locations at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi atomic power plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co.

TOKYO, March 28 Kyodo - A special panel investigating a match-fixing scandal that has floored Japan's ancient sport has recognized that former komusubi Shimotori, Mongolian-born makuuchi-division w