TOKYO, March 25 Kyodo - Honda Motor Co. has received orders for more than 21,000 units of the Insight hybrid hatchback since its showroom debut around six weeks ago on Feb.

TOKYO, March 25 Kyodo - Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso and Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko agreed Wednesday to enhance cooperation between the two countries to tackle climate change.

TOKYO, March 25 Kyodo - Japan will decide on Friday to issue an order for the destruction of debris from a North Korean rocket in case its planned launch fails, government sources said Wednesday.

OTARU, Japan, March 25 Kyodo - Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Hirohide Yamaguchi suggested Wednesday that the central bank is not ready to immediately reintroduce a zero-interest rate policy to boos

TOKYO, March 25 Kyodo - Japan will host next year's summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Yokohama, Prime Minister Taro Aso told reporters Wednesday.

TOKYO, March 25 Kyodo - The visiting family of slain British woman Lindsay Ann Hawker promised Wednesday to try to raise awareness in Britain about Japan's controversial statute of limitations syst

HIROSHIMA, March 25 Kyodo - The Hiroshima District Court on Wednesday rescinded the Hiroshima city government's decision not to designate seven plaintiffs as A-bomb survivors.

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TOKYO, March 24 Kyodo - Ichiro Ozawa, president of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan, said Tuesday he will remain in his post after prosecutors indicted his secretary earlier in the da

TOKYO, March 24 Kyodo - The Japanese petrochemical industry may experience a wave of realignments as a gigantic petrochemical plant, jointly built in Saudi Arabia by Sumitomo Chemical Co.