This week, atomic tea-leaf readers see in Yukio Edano's public comments signs of a turning point — critics might say "flip-flop" — that would allow nuclear plants to resume operation.

TOKYO - Yukio Edano isn't Japan's official leader. But while the unpopular Prime Minister Naoto Kan hangs on -- generally out of sight -- his chief cabinet secretary has become the face of the ...

TOKYO (MarketWatch) -- The Japanese government's chief spokesman, Yukio Edano, said Tuesday in a televised press conference that no government entity was studying any plan to nationalize Tokyo ...

TOKYO — Former Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano was named Japan’s new trade minister Monday, replacing a politician who resigned over comments considered insensitive to evacuees in the ...

Yukio Edano: Face of calm in Japan's storm Asked whether there was any possibility the land around the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant could become a permanent no-man's land, Edano deftly dodged the ...

Yukio Edano followed Prime Minister Naoto Kan through the creation of a political party in 1996 and the ascent of their Democratic Party of Japan to power 18 months ago. Now, as Japan faces its ...

Bond prices show creditors will have to share the bill for Japan’s nuclear crisis after the new minister responsible for power companies said banks should write off some loans to Tokyo Electric ...

Yukio Edano, the leader newly elected after two opposition parties' merger, speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on Thursday, Sept. 10, 2020. A 149-member group on Thursday chose Edano, a ...

Tokyo International Film Festival Opens With ‘Three Musketeers,’ Jackie Chan’s ‘1911’ Chan, Milla Jovovich, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda and trade and industry minister Yukio Edano were ...

Lauded for his tireless work briefing a nation in crisis, Yukio Edano has earned public affection and a league of Twitter fans urging him to sleep ...

No politician has had greater influence over Japanese business over the past year than Yukio Edano. In an interview Tuesday, the trade minister described his philosophy this way: an attack on the ...

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda chose on Monday former top government spokesman Yukio Edano as the new trade minister, acting to limit the damage to his new cabinet after the previous ...