Tokyo, June 17 Kyodo - Tokyo stocks closed over 2 percent higher Monday on the U.S. dollar's appreciation relative to the yen and eased inflation fears.

Tehran, June 17 Kyodo - A Japanese traveler freed Saturday after bandits kidnapped him in southeastern Iran in October apologized Monday for having caused trouble to the governments

Tokyo, June 17 Kyodo - A government climate change panel called for Japan to formulate an ''ambitious'' medium-term goal to cut greenhouse gas emissions in a proposal submitted to Prime Minister Ya

Naha, Japan, June 17 Kyodo - Science and technology ministers, and diplomats from the Group of Eight countries urged young people in Okinawa Prefecture on Monday to work out solutions for climate c

Sendai, June 17 Kyodo - The death toll from Saturday's quake in northeastern Japan rose to 10 Monday after a body was found in the debris of a hot-spring inn in Kurihara, Miyagi Prefecture, police

TOKYO, June 15 Kyodo - A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.2 jolted extensive areas of northeastern Japan on Saturday morning, leaving at least six people dead, 13 people missin

BEIJING, June 15 (Kyodo) - North Korea's envoy to talks with Japan said Saturday he thinks discussion between the two countries held in Beijing this week was sincere and in-depth.

OSAKA, June 15 (Kyodo) - Developing economies that attended the Group of Eight finance ministers' meeting in Osaka hailed Saturday the initiative led by some major industrialized countries to set u

OSAKA, June 16 (Kyodo) - Group of Eight finance ministers on Saturday called for the development of new biofuels from nonfood materials as part of efforts to secure alternative energy

TOKYO, June 15 Kyodo - North Korea has promised to reinvestigate the issue of Japanese nationals abducted by its agents and expressed readiness to cooperate in handing over Japanese radicals who hi