TOKYO, Oct. 23 Kyodo -
Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada said Friday he personally favors a plan to
transfer the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station to the nearby U.S. Kadena

Kolkata/New Delhi, Oct 23 (PTI) An Indian Air Force
(IAF) MiG-27 fighter jet on a routine training sortie Friday
crashed in a tea garden near New Jalpaiguri in India's eastern

TOKYO, Oct. 23 Kyodo -
Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama overwhelmingly ranked at the top in terms of
family assets of the 18 Cabinet members, documents they submitted showed

TOKYO, Oct. 23 Kyodo -
Japan's new government worked out a set of measures Friday to help unemployed
and hard-pressed people find jobs and shelter, as well as other support

BANGKOK, Oct. 23 Kyodo -
Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama arrived in Thailand on Friday to meet

TOKYO, Oct. 22 Kyodo -
The Japanese government is planning to invite Hwang Jang Yop, a former
high-ranking North Korean official who defected to South Korea in 1997, to

TOKYO, Oct. 22 Kyodo -
Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama indicated Thursday that his government would

TOKYO, Oct. 22 Kyodo -
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has urged Japan to reach a conclusion
before President Barack Obama's visit next month on where a U.S. military

TOKYO, Oct. 22 Kyodo -
Japan's trade surplus in September was the largest since March 2008, supported
by a steady recovery in exports, the Finance Ministry said Thursday.

HIROSHIMA, Oct. 22 Kyodo -
Nuclear arms reduction plans crafted this week by an international panel in