Kansai Electric seeks 15% power cut, Osaka gov. rejects it
OSAKA, June 10 Kyodo - Kansai Electric Power Co.
Pot to charge cellphones by boiling water to go on sale
TSUKUBA, Japan, June 10 Kyodo - A pot enabling users to charge their cellphones by boiling water in disaster situations will go on sale later this month.
Furukawa, 2 other astronauts arrive at International Space Station
MOSCOW, June 10 Kyodo - Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa and two other astronauts from Russia and the United States arrived Friday at the International Space Station and began their five-month m
Novelist Murakami raps Japan's nuke policy in Spain award speech
BARCELONA, Spain, June 10 Kyodo - Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami criticized his country's pursuit of nuclear energy Thursday during his acceptance speech at the 2011 International Catalunya Priz
Crisis-hit Fukushima city mayor seeks gov't body near no-entry zone
TOKYO, June 9 Kyodo - The mayor of Minamisoma in Fukushima Prefecture, which has been greatly affected by the ongoing nuclear crisis, called on the central government Thursday to set up an office n
Kan voices hope to keep his job until Aug., Noda may be successor
TOKYO, June 9 Kyodo - Prime Minister Naoto Kan expressed hope Thursday to stay in office at least until August, despite mounting pressure for him to quit this month from opposition parties and some
China viewed by U.S. citizens as most important Asian partner: poll
TOKYO, June 9 Kyodo - China is now viewed by U.S.
IAEA to call for stronger nuke regulatory authority at next meeting
VIENNA, June 9 Kyodo - Member countries of the International Atomic Energy Agency are expected to call for strengthening the function of nuclear regulatory authorities in a draft statement of their
Japan's 1st qtr GDP slightly upgraded to minus 3.5%
TOKYO, June 9 Kyodo - Japan's economy shrank an annualized real 3.5 percent in the three months through March, the government said Thursday, slightly upgrading the preliminary figure of minus 3.7 p
Gov't tells Kagoshima of plan to relocate U.S. drill
TOKYO, June 8 Kyodo - Senior Vice Defense Minister Katsuya Ogawa notified Kagoshima Gov. Yuichiro Ito on Wednesday that the government is considering relocating U.S.
