TOKYO, Nov. 16 Kyodo -
The Japanese government is working toward preparing a joint statement on the
global financial crisis to be issued at a trilateral summit with China and

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 Kyodo -
Japan and the World Bank said Friday they have agreed to launch a $3 billion

WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 Kyodo -
Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso proposed Friday that the capital base of the

WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 Kyodo - Leaders of the world's major industrialized and emerging economies gathered
Friday in Washington to fight the sharp slowdown of the global economy amid a

TOKYO, Nov. 15 Kyodo - Land development corporations of 11 prefectural and six municipal governments
in Japan have lost a total of 32.5 billion yen on sales of idled lands since

TOKYO, Nov. 15 Kyodo -
A government survey conducted in September found that 89 percent of respondents

KOBE, Nov. 15 Kyodo -
The president of a Tokushima-based seafood importer and seven other people were

TOKYO, Nov. 15 Kyodo -
The government and the ruling coalition are considering sharply increasing the

TOKYO, Nov. 15 Kyodo -
Controversy over the release of an essay about the war by sacked air force
chief Toshio Tamogami is still reverberating throughout the government, with

TOKYO, Nov. 15 Kyodo -
Four more university students -- three from Waseda and another from the Tokyo
University of Science -- were arrested earlier this year over growing or