TOKYO, July 6 Kyodo - Japan will conduct safety assessments called ''stress tests'' on all its nuclear power plants to allay heightened public concerns, industry minister Banri Kaieda said Wednesda

BERLIN, July 6 Kyodo - German Chancellor Angela Merkel told the visiting chairman of Japan's largest business lobby at a meeting Wednesday that her country intends to deepen bilateral exchanges in

TOKYO, July 6 Kyodo - Japanese and Chinese parliamentarians resumed an annual meeting at the Diet in Tokyo on Wednesday after they failed to meet last year as a result of a row over a ship collisio

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CHIBA, Japan, July 4 Kyodo - Tatsuya Ichihashi, charged with killing British woman Lindsay Hawker in Japan in 2007, pleaded not guilty to murder Monday while admitting he caused her death on the fi

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