Tehran, June 17 Kyodo - A Japanese traveler freed Saturday after bandits kidnapped him in southeastern Iran in October apologized Monday for having caused trouble to the governments

Tokyo, June 17 Kyodo - A government climate change panel called for Japan to formulate an ''ambitious'' medium-term goal to cut greenhouse gas emissions in a proposal submitted to Prime Minister Ya

Naha, Japan, June 17 Kyodo - Science and technology ministers, and diplomats from the Group of Eight countries urged young people in Okinawa Prefecture on Monday to work out solutions for climate c

Sendai, June 17 Kyodo - The death toll from Saturday's quake in northeastern Japan rose to 10 Monday after a body was found in the debris of a hot-spring inn in Kurihara, Miyagi Prefecture, police

TOKYO, June 15 Kyodo - A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.2 jolted extensive areas of northeastern Japan on Saturday morning, leaving at least six people dead, 13 people missin

BEIJING, June 15 (Kyodo) - North Korea's envoy to talks with Japan said Saturday he thinks discussion between the two countries held in Beijing this week was sincere and in-depth.

OSAKA, June 15 (Kyodo) - Developing economies that attended the Group of Eight finance ministers' meeting in Osaka hailed Saturday the initiative led by some major industrialized countries to set u

OSAKA, June 16 (Kyodo) - Group of Eight finance ministers on Saturday called for the development of new biofuels from nonfood materials as part of efforts to secure alternative energy

TOKYO, June 15 Kyodo - North Korea has promised to reinvestigate the issue of Japanese nationals abducted by its agents and expressed readiness to cooperate in handing over Japanese radicals who hi

OSAKA, June 14 (Kyodo) - Finance ministers from the Group of Eight major countries vowed Saturday to remain vigilant against surging commodity prices and to implement appropriate steps to fight inf