WASHINGTON, April 11 Kyodo - Prime Minister Fumio Kishida emphasized in a landmark speech to the U.S.

    WASHINGTON, April 8 Kyodo - Prime Minister Fumio Kishida arrived in the United States on Monday for the first state visit by a Japanese leader in nine years, underscoring the increasi

    TOKYO, April 4 Kyodo - Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Thursday punished 39 members over a political funds scandal, including urging two heavyweights to leave the party, ai

    WASHINGTON, April 3 Kyodo - President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will agree next week to pave the way for jointly developing key defense equipment as the deca

    TOKYO, April 2 Kyodo - Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party is to advise two heavyweights of its biggest faction to leave the party due to their roles in a political funds scandal

    TOKYO, March 27 Kyodo - Reports of ill health after consumption of Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co.'s red yeast rice dietary supplements implicated in two deaths largely relate to product

    TOKYO, March 27 Kyodo - Japan aims to develop a next-generation passenger aircraft around 2035 and establish a domestic industry by drawing from the lessons learned from the failure o

    TOKYO, March 27 Kyodo - Japan will take "decisive steps" to stem excessive weakness in the yen, Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said Wednesday, after the currency fell to a 34-year l

    TOKYO, March 26 Kyodo - Japan on Tuesday eased its strict defense equipment transfer rules to allow the worldwide export of next-generation fighter jets set to be jointly developed wi