Tokyo, June 26 Kyodo - Japan and South Korea held working-level talks Wednesday in Tokyo toward reopening negotiations to sign a bilateral free trade agreement which have been suspended since Novem

Tokyo, June 26 Kyodo - The government said Wednesday that a total of 1,402 ministry and agency bureaucrats have received favors in such forms as cash and cans of beer from taxi drivers when be

Sapporo, June 26 Kyodo - A U.S.-born Japanese citizen living in Sapporo has lodged a protest with Hokkaido prefectural police, alleging police officers are discriminating against foreigners by tar

Beijing, June 26 Kyodo - Beijing Olympics organizers confirmed Wednesday they have scrapped the international legs of the Paralympics torch relay.

TOKYO, June 26 Kyodo - Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda and U.S. President George W.

TOKYO, June 26 Kyodo - Japan's customs-cleared trade surplus narrowed 7.6 percent in May from a year earlier to 365.6 billion yen for the third consecutive monthly decline, as advances in impo

TOKYO, June 26 Kyodo - U.S. President George W.

TOKYO, June 26 Kyodo - North Korea's long-due nuclear declaration anticipated Thursday will be ''significant'' as a step in the country's fulfillment of its six-party talks commitment to event

Tokyo, June 26 Kyodo - Foreign ministers of the Group of Eight nations are set to confirm their commitments on security and reconstruction in Afghanistan when they meet in Kyoto from Thursday, incl

TOKYO, June 26 Kyodo - Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. said Wednesday it will acquire a 2 percent stake in Barclays Plc for around 500 million pounds (about $985 million).