Mizuho expects 1st red ink in 6 years for FY 2008+
TOKYO, April 23 Kyodo - Mizuho Financial Group Inc.
SMAP member Kusanagi arrested for public indecency+
TOKYO, April 23 Kyodo - Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, a member of the Japanese pop music group SMAP, was arrested Thursday for public indecency after stripping naked while under the influence of alcohol at a
Lower house approves antipiracy legislation over opposition+
TOKYO, April 23 Kyodo - The House of Representatives passed a government-sponsored antipiracy bill on Thursday without any amendment in the face of opposition by the Democratic Party of Japan and o
Japan to send ground troops to assist antipiracy mission off Somalia+
TOKYO, April 23 Kyodo - Ground Self-Defense Force personnel will be dispatched to Djibouti by the end of next month to assist Japanese patrol aircraft to be based there for an antipiracy mission of
Japan sets record high ODA targets for Asia, Africa in FY 2009+
TOKYO, April 23 Kyodo - The Foreign Ministry said Thursday it has set record high numerical targets for Japan's official development assistance to other Asian economies and Africa in fiscal 2009, a
3-4 N. Korean entities might be subject to U.N. asset freeze+
NEW YORK, April 23 Kyodo - Three or four North Korean entities, including a trade firm and a bank, might be designated by the United Nations for an asset freeze as part of U.N.
American reporter of Japanese descent in Iran to go on hunger-strike+
TEHRAN, April 23 Kyodo - An American journalist of Japanese descent convicted in Iran of spying for the United States intends to launch a hunger-strike to protest her innocence, her family told Kyo
87 parliamentarians visit Yasukuni Shrine in biannual event+
TOKYO, April 22 Kyodo -
Eighty-seven Japanese parliamentarians, including 11 in government posts,
visited the war-related Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo during its spring festival
