Text of report in English by Japan's largest news agency Kyodo Tokyo, July 25 Kyodo - The number of injured in the magnitude 6.8 earthquake that jolted northeastern Japan on Thursday had reached 200 in eight prefectures as of 5 p.m.

Tokyo, Oct. 1 (Jiji Press)--East Japan Railway Co.

Text of report in English by Japanese news agency Kyodo Aomori, Japan, Feb.

By The Yomiuri Shimbun AOMORI, Japan - Doctors are taking note of the potential healing effect of Kuchiyose, a folk ritual in which spirits of the dead purportedly speak through a female shaman's mouth. A research group at Japan's Aomori University of Health and Welfare, led by Prof.

Six men and three women in Japan reportedly died in two separate apparent group suicides, reports Kyodo news agency. In the first incident Friday, five men and a woman, all in their 20s, were found dead in a van parked on a forest road in Chichibu in the Saitama Prefecture.