TOKYO, July 15 Kyodo - The Bank of Japan started its two-day policy meeting Monday amid expectations that the central bank will downgrade its estimate for the country's economic growth in the curre

TOKYO, July 15 (Kyodo) - Japan's lay judge system will effectively start Tuesday, with all of the 50 district courts and their 10 branches set to embark on a procedure to file lists of candidates f

TOKYO, July 15 (Kyodo) - Local governments and municipalities across Japan, hampered by fiscal constraints, are slow in adopting an alarm system designed to provide instantaneous notification of ea

TOKYO, July 15 (Kyodo) - The Children's Investment Fund said Monday it has decided to accept a Japanese government order barring the British hedge fund from acquiring a larger stake in Electric Pow

TOKYO, July 15 (Kyodo) - Executives of the largest opposition Democratic Party of Japan decided Monday to hold the party's presidential election on Sept.

TOKYO, July 14 Kyodo - The Japan Fisheries Cooperatives and 16 other major fisheries groups will have all member fishermen suspend operations on Tuesday in an attempt to raise public awareness of t

MANILA, July 15 (Kyodo) - Sixteen ageing sons and daughters of Japanese men who lived, worked or fought in the Philippines before and during World War II will leave for Tokyo on Tuesday to appeal t

TOKYO, July 15 Kyodo - Japan decided Monday to refer to two uninhabited islets disputed with South Korea in the Sea of Japan in a teaching guideline for junior high schools, making it the first tim

TOKYO, July 13 Kyodo - Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda informed South Korean President Lee Myung Bak during their talks in Hokkaido last Wednesday of Japan's plan to state in an educational document th

TOKYO, July 12 Kyodo - Japan plans to ask China to scrap a ban on the entry of leprosy sufferers to the country during the Beijing Olympic Games when they hold a bilateral dialogue on human rights