TOKYO (KYODO) Prosecutors sought the death penalty Tuesday for a 28-year-old former temporary worker charged over a stabbing rampage in Tokyo's Akihabara district in June 2008 that killed seven peo
TOKYO (KYODO) An upcoming Tokyo government-run subculture fair will see a sharp fall in the number of exhibitors, the organizer said Tuesday, a move widely taken as a protest against new regulation
TOKYO, (Kyodo) - The Japanese economy could soon overcome its recent pause and return to moderate recovery, Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa said Tuesday, citing firmer exports and producti
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Ruling party kingpin Ichiro Ozawa refused Tuesday to submit to questioning over
TOKYO, Jan. 18 Kyodo - Only 68.8 percent of university students had found jobs as of Dec.
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The Bank of Japan downgraded Monday the assessments on almost all regional
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Shinkansen bullet train services on all five lines of East Japan Railway Co.
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The western Japan port city of Kobe and its neighboring cities commemorated
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Japan must finish with legal preparations by fiscal 2011 to implement
fundamental tax reform, including a hike in the politically sensitive
