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Kyodo News, Published on 21/03/2024
» TOKYO - An earthquake measuring a preliminary magnitude of 5.3 hit areas near Tokyo on Thursday, but no tsunami warning was issued and there were no immediate reports of casualties, the weather agency and local authorities said.
Kyodo News, Published on 13/02/2018
» BEIJING: North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un voiced eagerness to improve inter-Korean ties further following the meeting between its senior officials and South Korea's president, official media said Tuesday, with the US hinting at the possibility of direct talks with Pyongyang.
Kyodo News, Published on 14/05/2017
» PARIS -- Emmanuel Macron, the pro-European Union victor in the French presidential election, was sworn in Sunday as the youngest French president in history.
Kyodo News, Published on 26/03/2017
» Malaysian police on Sunday entered the North Korean Embassy in Kuala Lumpur in connection with last month's murder of Kim Jong-nam, the estranged half-brother of North Korea leader Kim Jong Un, according to <i>China Press</i>, a Malaysian Chinese-language newspaper.
Kyodo News, Published on 20/03/2017
» TOKYO - Senior lawmakers on Friday presented Prime Minister Shinzo Abe a Diet proposal calling on the government to prepare one-off legislation to enable 83-year-old Emperor Akihito to abdicate.
Kyodo News, Published on 23/02/2017
» MIYAZAKI, Kyushu - Japan's southernmost ski resort is on the verge of shutting down, struggling to attract visitors amid declining numbers of skiers and snowboarders.
Business, Kyodo News, Published on 27/12/2016
» Tokyo: Magazine sales by value in Japan are expected to fall short of that of books for the first time in 41 years in 2016, on the back of sluggish comic magazine sales and growing demand for online publications, a research institute said Monday.
Kyodo News, Published on 26/07/2016
» VIENTIANE - Southeast Asian foreign ministers failed Monday to make a united assessment on an international tribunal's ruling that rejected China's claims to almost the entire South China Sea.
Kyodo News, Published on 10/05/2016
» A group of journalists released online on Tuesday Japan time further information on leaked documents dubbed the "Panama Papers," which rocked the world by implicating key politicians and business leaders in massive tax evasion.
Kyodo News, Published on 12/09/2015
» A charity concert was given in New York on Friday night to remember the victims of the Sept 11, 2001 attacks in the United States and the March 11, 2011 quake and tsunami in Japan.