TOKYO, Aug 5 Kyodo - The chance of getting selected as a lay judge would have averaged one in 4,911 had lay judge panels been introduced last year, a Kyodo News estimate based on data provided by t
BEIJING, Aug 5 Kyodo - Security officials say terrorists are suspected of killing 16 paramilitary police officers in northwest China on Monday in an attack only days ahead of the Olympic Games, sta
TOKYO, Aug 5 Kyodo - Toshihiro Nikai said Monday his biggest mission as Japan's new economy, trade and industry minister is achieving national growth by all means possible at a time when the global
TOKYO, Aug 5 Kyodo - The Japanese Foreign Ministry promised Monday to improve its handling of information in cases of radioactive leaks from U.S.
TOKYO, Aug 5 (Kyodo) - Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda asked Economic and Fiscal Policy Minister Kaoru Yosano on Monday to compile a comprehensive economic stimulus package, including measures to deal
TOKYO, Aug. 3 Kyodo - Yoshio Nishina, one of Japan's leading physicists during World War II, recognized that the weapon dropped on Hiroshima was an atomic bomb when he received a copy of U.S.
SEOUL, Aug. 3 Kyodo - North Korea announced Sunday that it will expel all ''unnecessary'' South Korean personnel working at its Mt.
CAIRO, Aug.
