TOKYO, March 27 Kyodo - The central government is poised to shoulder almost all the costs of reconstruction in areas hit by the March 11 devastating earthquake and tsunami, Cabinet members said Sun

TOKYO, March 27 Kyodo - A total of 58.2 percent of respondents do not approve of the government's handling of the nuclear crisis at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, while 39.3 pe

TOKYO, March 26 Kyodo - Japan's top government spokesman Yukio Edano said Saturday he finds it difficult to predict when the ongoing crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant would end.<

TOKYO, March 26 Kyodo - Japanese automakers will consider running their factories in rotation to help cut the industry's electricity consumption amid power shortages created by a quake-crippled nuc

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TOKYO, March 26 Kyodo - Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Friday it has begun injecting freshwater into the No. 1 and No.

TOKYO, March 26 Kyodo - Radiation levels in tap water at a Tokyo water purification plant declined further Friday, remaining within the normal range for consumption, the Tokyo metropolitan governme

TOKYO, March 26 Kyodo - Two weeks after the devastating March 11 earthquake and tsunami hit northeastern and eastern Japan, the official death toll topped 10,000 while more than 240,000 people were

TOKYO, March 25 Kyodo - Two of the three workers who were exposed to high-level radiation and sustained possible burns at a crisis-hit nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture have likely suffer