TOKYO (KYODO) - Prime Minister Naoto Kan set up emergency headquarters on Friday at his office immediately after a devastating earthquake struck northeastern Japan, mobilizing the Self-Defense Forc

TOKYO, March 10 Kyodo - The Japan Coast Guard is set to arrest as early as Friday the four pirates who were captured by the U.S. military after they attacked a tanker operated by Mitsui O.S.K.

TOKYO, March 10 Kyodo - Japan and the United States have decided to hold security talks involving their foreign and defense ministers at an early date, with an eye to scheduling the talks during Ja

TOKYO, March 10 Kyodo - The United States sacked a senior diplomat handling Japanese affairs and offered an apology Thursday over his reported disparaging remarks about the people of Okinawa in an

TOKYO, March 10 Kyodo - A Democratic Party of Japan lawmaker, who has close ties with Prime Minister Naoto Kan, came under heavy fire Thursday from opposition parties for signing a document that si

BEIJING, March 10 Kyodo - The Chinese Foreign Ministry dismissed Thursday a Japanese newspaper report quoting a state-run oil company official as saying China had unilaterally begun gas production

NAHA, Japan, March 10 Kyodo - Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima on Thursday protested comments by senior U.S.

TOKYO, March 10 Kyodo - The Japanese economy shrank at a faster pace than earlier thought in the last quarter of 2010, the government said Thursday, revising downward the nation's gross domestic pr

TOKYO (Kyodo) - New Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto, the successor of Seiji Maehara, pledged Wednesday that he will take over his predecessor's unfulfilled missions of deepening the Japan-U.S.

(Kyodo) - Japan's top government spokesman voiced strong regret Wednesday over a report that China has unilaterally started gas production in a field in a disputed area of the East China Sea, but C