(Kyodo) - Tourism ministers from Japan, China and South Korea agreed Sunday to jointly work out crisis management guidelines to address critical events that negatively affect tourism, such as natur

BRUSSELS (Kyodo) - Japanese and European Union leaders on Saturday agreed to swiftly start preparatory talks for a future free trade accord during an annual summit in Brussels, while vowing to coop

TOKYO (Kyodo) - The Defense Ministry will hire Ayako Kimura, an expert on security issues at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, on June 8 as a senior official in charge of the relocation of a U.S.

NEW YORK (Kyodo) - U.N.

DEAUVILLE, France, May 27 Kyodo - Leaders from the Group of Eight major powers agreed Friday on the need to better define international standards for nuclear safety and further cooperate in assisti

DEAUVILLE, France, May 27 Kyodo - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan voiced regret Friday over a recent visit by Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov to disputed islands off Hokkaido in a mee

TOKYO, May 28 Kyodo - Turkey hopes to reach an agreement with Japan by the end of this year on the construction of a nuclear power plant at its northern coastal city of Sinop, Turkish Ambassador to

TOKYO, May 27 Kyodo - A group of experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency on a fact-finding mission into Japan's worst nuclear accident inspected on Friday the crippled Fukushima Daiichi

TOKYO, May 27 Kyodo - After three straight years in the red, Sony Corp.

TOKYO, May 27 Kyodo - A senior member of the Vietnamese Communist Party, who is widely expected to become the nation's president in July, will make a four-day visit to Japan from Wednesday to discu