TOKYO, March 15 Kyodo - A Japanese court accepted on the same day a child consultation center's request to suspend the parental rights of a couple who refused to let their son have a blood transfus

TOKYO, March 15 Kyodo - A panel promoting nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation will urge the United States to take a leadership role in nuclear disarmament by developing a nuclear policy of ''n

NAGASAKI, March 15 Kyodo - Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, the Vatican's foreign minister, visited Nagasaki on Sunday and laid flowers at a monument marking the hypocenter of the Aug.

TOKYO, March 14 Kyodo - Stephen Bosworth, the new U.S.

TOKYO, March 14 Kyodo - Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping, the most prominent candidate to succeed President Hu Jintao, will likely visit Japan in the fall or later this year, with the schedule pus

TOKYO, March 14 Kyodo - More than 60 percent of respondents backed antipiracy operations by the Self-Defense Forces while the ratio of those opposing the SDF's involvement in such missions was lim

TOKYO, March 14 Kyodo - At least two people were seriously injured Saturday when they were hit by strong wind caused by a low pressure system covering eastern Japan.

KURE, Japan, March 14 Kyodo - Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyers set sail Saturday for an antipiracy mission off Somalia, marking the first such activity abroad for the country's Self-

TOKYO, March 13 Kyodo -
Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso warned in a strongly worded message to North

TOKYO, March 13 Kyodo -
Prime Minister Taro Aso said Friday he would not overlook it if North Korea