TOKYO, March 28 Kyodo - The government on Monday urged residents of the 20-kilometer exclusion zone around the quake-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant not to return for the time being.

TOKYO, March 27 Kyodo - Japan on Sunday faced an increasing challenge of removing highly radioactive water found inside buildings near some troubled nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant,

TOKYO, March 27 Kyodo - The health ministry has instructed the operator of water purification plants nationwide to temporarily stop taking in rainwater to prevent contamination in tap water followi

TOKYO, March 27 Kyodo - An Israeli emergency medical team arrived in Japan on Sunday night for a mission to treat survivors of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, marking the first foreign medical

SENDAI, March 27 Kyodo - Child welfare officials have launched an extensive search for children who have lost their parents or have gone missing in parts of northeastern Japan ravaged by the catast

GENEVA, March 27 Kyodo - Japan will ask World Trade Organization members not to ''overreact'' to the crisis surrounding the stricken nuclear plant in Fukushima Prefecture, which has prompted import

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