The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News.     ----------Chinese military aircraft lock radar ...

The business confidence index among major Japanese manufacturers improved to 15 in December from 14 three months earlier, the ...

Twin pandas at a zoo in Tokyo are set to be returned to China in late January, leaving none in the country for the first time ...

"Hunchback," a novel by Japanese author Saou Ichikawa, is rapidly gaining international recognition, earning nominations for ...

Indian health care workers are being eyed by Japan as a promising source of caregivers, with hopes that accessing labor from ...

The growing accessibility of online fund-raising tools, including crowdfunding, has led Japanese political parties to ...

Japan attacker Ritsu Doan scored the winner for his fourth league goal of the season as Eintracht Frankfurt saw off Augsburg ...

Moscow pounded Ukrainian power infrastructure with drone and missile strikes on Saturday and Kyiv launched a deadly strike of ...

A shooter dressed in black killed at least two people and wounded eight others at Brown University on Saturday during final ...

Belarus has freed 123 prisoners including a Nobel Peace Prize winner and a Japanese man who had been sentenced for espionage, in exchange for the lifting of U.S. sanctions on potash, a key agricultura ...

Japan's Miho Takagi won the women's 1,000 meters at a speed skating World Cup event on Saturday as the Beijing Olympics gold ...

Japan's Hiroto Ogiwara won the men's big air at the snowboarding World Cup event on Saturday as compatriot Miyabi Onitsuka claimed the women's competition as well as the season's overall title in the ...