AFP - Time may have diminished the trauma of the worst terrorist attack in modern Japanese history, which struck 15 years ago Saturday, but widow Shizue Takahashi is determined not to let the memory fade.

AFP - Japan and France Thursday pushed Iran to allay international suspicions about its nuclear programme, saying the time has come for Tehran to reject suggestions that it might be developing atomic bombs.

AFP - Japan on Saturday marked the 15th anniversary of the deadly 1995 Tokyo subway nerve gas attacks, with families of victims leaving flowers at the scene of some of the deaths.

AP - Tokyo subway workers observed a moment of silence Saturday to mark the 15th anniversary of a nerve gas attack by a religious cult, Japan's deadliest act of domestic terrorism.

AP - Japan is still seeking to move a contentious American military base off the southern island of Okinawa and will finalize its proposal for Washington by the end of March, the prime minister said Friday.

AFP - Three foreign nurses on Friday passed the Japanese nursing exam, the first to do so under Japan's drive to attract Asians to help ease the nation's severe shortage of nurses.