BEIJING, July 10 Kyodo - State-run media on Wednesday reminded spectators not to bring banned items to Olympic sports venues -- including long umbrellas, cigarette lighters and soft drinks -- as pa

RUSUTSU, Japan, July 8 (Kyodo) - World Bank President Robert Zoellick said Monday that the international community is facing a double danger of escalating fuel and food prices, urging leaders at t

TOKYO, July 8 (Kyodo) - Dietician Hatsuki Umemoto's heart skipped a beat when a schoolchild said, ''You give us 'komatsuna' (Japanese mustard spinach) every day.''The 23-year-old woman in charge of

TOYAKO, Japan, July 8 (Kyodo) - Members of some nongovernmental organizations have expressed discontent over the limited number of passes issued by the Japanese government for entry into the Intern

TOKYO, July 8 (Kyodo) - The U.S. dollar rose into the mid-107 yen zone Monday in Tokyo on Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa's bleak view of the Japanese economy.

NAGASAKI, July 8 Kyodo - A monument for 33 Chinese people forced to work in Japanese coal mines during World War II and killed in the wartime atomic bombing of Nagasaki was unveiled Monday in the c

TOYAKO, Japan, July 8 (Kyodo) - The European Union on Monday announced a fresh package worth 1 billion euro, or $1.5 billion, in aid to developing countries to support agriculture through theprovis

TOYAKO, Japan, July 8 (Kyodo) - Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda agreed with the leaders of Britain and Germany in separate talks Monday to cooperate to seek a ''fruitful'' result in climate ch

TOKYO, July 8 (Kyodo) - Tokyo stocks reversed earlier losses to close higher Monday, with the key Nikkei index snapping its 12-day losing streak, as investor sentiment was lifted by rises in Asian

TOKYO, July 8 (Kyodo) - The Bank of Japan on Monday revised downward its assessment of economic activities for eight of the country's nine regions, citing sluggish private consumption.