Tokyo, May 18 (Jiji Press)--Stocks advanced on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Wednesday morning on short covering prompted by a weaker yen.

Tokyo, May 16 (Jiji Press)--Experts are divided on the impact on the global economy of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster in the northeastern Japan region of Tohoku.

Tokyo, May 16 (Jiji Press)--Stocks stayed under selling pressure after a two-day fall on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Monday morning, pressured by U.S.

Tokyo, May 13 (Jiji Press)--The government made a formal decision Friday on a framework to compensate those affected by the nuclear crisis at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s <9501> Fukushima No.

Tokyo, May 11 (Jiji Press)--The Japanese government will decide on May 20 whether to sign the Hague treaty on cross-border parental abductions of children after breakups in international marriage,

Tokyo, May 10 (Jiji Press)--Japan's labor ministry is investigating Tokyo Electric Power Co. <9501> over a female worker's exposure to radiation above the legal limit at the Fukushima No.

Tokyo, May 6 (Jiji Press)--Stocks fell back on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Friday morning, on the back of the yen's rise and an overnight fall on Wall Street, with the key Nikkei average briefly falli

Tokyo, May 2 (Jiji Press)--Japan's Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko postponed their visit to Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, initially set for Monday, until Friday due to bad weather.

(Jiji Press) - Japan's Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko made their first visit Wednesday to the Tohoku northeastern region devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

Tokyo (Jiji Press) - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said Tuesday he will do his best so every evacuee who wishes to move to temporary housing can do so by around the Bon holidays in mid-August,