TOKYO, April 15 Kyodo - Japanese Air Self-Defense Force fighter jets were scrambled against foreign airplanes flying near Japanese airspace 299 times in fiscal 2009 through March 31, up 62 from the

TOKYO, April 15 Kyodo -
The Bank of Japan on Thursday raised its assessments for seven of the nation's
nine regional economies as Japan's economic recovery continues amid

TOKYO, April 15 Kyodo -
Japan plans to issue entry visas for Uyghur activist Rebiya Kadeer and Tibet's

TOKYO, April 15 Kyodo - A government subcommittee has drafted guidelines for the first time on teaching Japanese to foreign residents of Japan in order to support them in their daily

TOKYO, April 15 Kyodo - Philip Morris Japan KK has decided to cancel its planned cigarette retail price hikes in Japan for fear of seeing a further fall in sales, a Finance Ministry official said T

TOKYO, April 15 Kyodo - Greenhouse gas emissions in Japan in fiscal 2008 dropped 6.4 percent from the year before to 1.28 billion tons of carbon dioxide equivalent, reflecting a decline in energy c

TOKYO, April 15 Kyodo - Japan decided Thursday to provide up to 100 million yen in emergency grant aid to China after a remote area in a western part of the country was hit by a powerful earthquake

TOKYO, April 15 Kyodo - Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama said Thursday he needs agreement from the United States, the ruling coalition bloc and local governments concerned to settle the

BRUSSELS, April 15 Kyodo - European Union President Herman Van Rompuy published his first collection of haiku, traditional Japanese-style poems, on Thursday ahead of his scheduled visit to Japan la

WASHINGTON, April 13 Kyodo -
Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev