The Cabinet approved the appointment of Meiji Kakizaki, 59, deputy managing editorial writer at Kyodo News, a leading Japanese news agency, on Sept. 29. Kakizaki will leave Kyodo on Sept.

KAGOSHIMA (Kyodo) -- An iconic 3,000-year-old cedar on Yakushima Island in southwestern Japan has been toppled, likely due to strong winds brought by Typhoon Shanshan, local tour guides said Tuesday.

(VCG/Getty/Kyodo) BEIJING (Kyodo) -- China's top diplomat Wang Yi showed willingness to lease giant pandas to a Japanese zoo when he met last week with a cross-party parliamentary delegation from ...

Foreign and defence ministry officials would also resume security talks, Japan's Kyodo news agency reported. The sex slave who refused to be silenced Japan was the future but it's stuck in the ...

High waves whipped up by Shanshan in Ibusuki in Kagoshima Prefecture [Kyodo/via Reuters] The same warning was in place in the city of Usa, also in Oita Prefecture, because of possible flooding ...