TOKYO, April 26 Kyodo - Ministers from major oil producers and consumers in Asia and the Middle East called for efforts Sunday to stop falling investments in the energy sector while urging enhanced

TOKYO, April 26 Kyodo - The education ministry has decided to set up about 50 Japanese language classes across the nation in an attempt to assist Japanese Brazilians who find it difficult to enroll

WASHINGTON, April 25 Kyodo - The International Monetary Fund on Saturday garnered widespread support to rebuild its functions to meet the needs of countries badly shaken by the most severe economic

WASHINGTON, April 25 Kyodo - U.S.

TOKYO, April 26 Kyodo - Japan remained on high alert Saturday for swine flu following reports of deadly outbreaks among people in Mexico, with the government tightening health checks of passengers

TOKYO, April 25 Kyodo - Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. has been granted preferential negotiating rights to buy Nikko Cordial Securities Inc. from troubled U.S.

WASHINGTON, April 25 Kyodo - Finance chiefs from the Group of Seven industrial powers agreed Friday that they will continue to take every step possible to restore growth and avert a recurrence of a

TOKYO, April 25 Kyodo - Shinsei Bank and Aozora Bank are in talks for a merger, eyeing the establishment of a joint holding company in summer 2010, a move that would create the sixth biggest bank i

BEIJING, April 25 Kyodo - North Korea, which said Saturday it has begun reprocessing spent nuclear fuel rods, may be able to produce plutonium for about one and a half nuclear bombs in less than si

SAPPORO, April 25 Kyodo - A forum was set up Saturday in Sapporo to enhance solidarity among indigenous peoples around the world, with the ethnic Ainu people in Hokkaido, northern Japan, serving as