BEIJING, June 8 Kyodo - Japanese and North Korean envoys agreed Saturday on the need to make progress in improving relations and decided to hold formal talks next week on disputes preventing them

TOKYO, June 7 (Kyodo) - Japan's largest brokerage house Nomura Securities Co.

TOKYO, June 6 Kyodo - The world needs to invest at least an additional $45 trillion in technology and its deployment through 2050 to halve global carbon dioxide emissions from current levels by tha

TOKYO, June 6 Kyodo - Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda and visiting Turkish President Abdullah Gul agreed Friday to develop a ''firmer and more dynamic'' relationship, not only to strengthen b

NAGOYA, June 6 Kyodo - Enthusiasm for the relocation of some central government functions from the capital to local regions is fading as Diet debate on the issue has reached a stalemate, prompting

TOKYO, June 6 Kyodo - Japan and North Korea will hold unofficial working-level talks in Beijing on Saturday on Pyongyang's past abductions and other issues in preparation for a possible resump

TOKYO, June 7 (Kyodo) - Among about 170 prefectural hospitals nationwide, 61 of them, or more than 30 percent, have closed some consultation and diagnostic departments or downsized their service

TOKYO, June 6 Kyodo - The Finance Ministry said Thursday a total of 383 ministry officials have admitted to receiving favors from taxi drivers when taking rides home late at night on taxpayers' mon

TOKYO, June 5 (Kyodo) - Finance ministers of the Group of Eight major countries will put their heads together during a meeting in Osaka next week to work out solutions to the current surges in ene

TOKYO, June 5 (Kyodo) - A ruling Liberal Democratic Party panel discussing ways to tackle climate change agreed Wednesday on the need for Japan to set its own long-term target to reduce greenhouse