BEIJING, July 11 Kyodo - Chief nuclear negotiators from six countries agreed Friday in Beijing on the principles of creating a mechanism to verify North Korea's declaration of its nuclear programs,

TOKYO, July 11 Kyodo - Shinsei Bank said Friday it will acquire a Tokyo-based financial arm of General Electric Co.

TOKYO, July 11 Kyodo - A book released nearly 80 years ago and considered a representative piece of proletarian literature is apparently striking a chord with young part-time workers amid growing i

TOKYO, July 11 Kyodo - Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga said Friday he believes Japan's consumption tax rate should be raised in two or three stages from the current 5 percent to reach a double-di

AOMORI, Japan, July 11 Kyodo - Prosecutors filed an indictment against two members of Greenpeace Japan for trespassing and stealing whale meat, which the conservation group presented to law-enforce

BEIJING, July 11 Kyodo - Japan urged North Korea on Friday in Beijing to promptly make good on a promise it made last month to reinvestigate the issue of its past abductions of Japanese nationals,

TOKYO, July 11 Kyodo - Japanese exports of used cars are rising steadily, reflecting their popularity overseas, and foreign buyers are gaining the upper hand over their Japanese counterparts.

TOKYO, July 11 Kyodo - Apple Inc.'s iPhone debuted Friday in Japan, with sales starting early in the morning at Softbank Mobile Corp.'s flagship store in Omotesando, downtown Tokyo, with over 1,500

BEIJING, July 11 Kyodo - Thursday to try to set up a mechanism to verify North Korea's declaration of its nuclear programs.

BEIJING, July 11 Kyodo - Japan's top nuclear negotiator Akitaka Saiki expressed dissatisfaction Thursday over North Korea's declaration of its nuclear programs, saying the documentdoes not contain