TOKYO, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- Japanese leaders have offered to lift economic sanctions against North Korea in return for reopening investigations of kidnappings of Japanese citizens.

TOKYO, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- Japan's foreign minister admitted Friday Japan had kept quiet about a Chinese food poisoning outbreak -- at China's request.

KYOTO, Japan, June 27 (UPI) -- Foreign ministers of the Group of Eight nations stressed Friday that North Korea's disclosure of its nuclear activities needs to be fully verified.

BEIJING, June 10 (UPI) -- Japan will respond the same way as North Korea at their Beijing talks on the issue of abducted Japanese nationals, the foreign minister said Tuesday.

TOKYO, May 20 (UPI) -- Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda announced plans for Japan to double its aid to Africa to $1.9 billion by 2012 from the current total of about $900 million.

TOKYO, Feb. 12 (UPI) -- Japan Tuesday sent an official protest to the United States deploring the alleged rape of a 14-year-old girl by a U.S. Marine in Okinawa, a report said.

TOKYO, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- Japan may join the U.S. team in disabling North Korea’s nuclear facilities and share the cost of the effort.

TOKYO, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- The Japanese Cabinet, citing no progress on the abduction of its nationals by North Korea, Tuesday extended sanctions against Pyongyang.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 (UPI) -- Japan reportedly wants North Korea kept on the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism until it resolves the issue of the abductions of Japanese nationals.