BEIJING, July 16 (Kyodo) - Japan on Tuesday expressed its concern over China's ban on the entry of leprosy suffers and HIV positive people into the country and urged Beijing to rethinkits position

TOKYO, July 16 Kyodo - Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga left on Tuesday for a weeklong trip to the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Uzbekistan aiming to attract investment to Japan from the resour

TOKYO, July 16 Kyodo - Chinese writer Yang Li's novel, which she wrote in Japanese, won the Akutagawa Prize on Tuesday, making its author the first Chinese to win the prestigious literary award, t

TOKYO, July 16 Kyodo - About 200,000 fishing boats -- almost all the fishery vessels operating in Japan -- halted operations Tuesday in an attempt to raise public awareness of the predicament they

TOKYO, July 15 (Kyodo) - The Tokyo High Court decided Monday to reopen a 1967 murder-robbery case in Tone, Ibaraki Prefecture, citing ''serious'' doubts about the witness accounts and the initial c

SINGAPORE, July 14 Kyodo - North Korea will sign the Association of Southeast Asian Nations' non-aggression treaty on July 24 on the sidelines of an annual gathering offoreign ministers from ASEAN

TOKYO, July 15 (Kyodo) - The government retained its assessment of the current state of the Japanese economy Monday, indicating a pause in Japan's economic recovery with weak movements in exports a

TOKYO, July 15 (Kyodo) - Japan will again demand that North Korea hold talks on its pledge to reinvestigate cases of its abductions of Japanese nationals, Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura

TOKYO, July 15 Kyodo - The Bank of Japan started its two-day policy meeting Monday amid expectations that the central bank will downgrade its estimate for the country's economic growth in the curre

TOKYO, July 15 (Kyodo) - Japan's lay judge system will effectively start Tuesday, with all of the 50 district courts and their 10 branches set to embark on a procedure to file lists of candidates f