A Japanese government opinion poll shows the proportion of people who cited "disaster preparedness" as an area that is ...

More than 490,000 applicants for universities in Japan have begun the two-day standardized entrance examinations.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian have signed a comprehensive strategic partnership ...

Taiwan President Lai Ching-te has held talks with former US Vice President Mike Pence, apparently hoping to strengthen ...

Japanese pitching star Sasaki Roki says he has agreed to sign with the Los Angeles Dodgers. He had been aiming to move to a ...

NHK has learned that a court in eastern China is set to hand down a ruling on Thursday to a man charged in connection with a ...

The inauguration ceremony for US President-elect Donald Trump has been shifted indoors due to weather conditions that are ...

The US Supreme Court on Friday upheld a federal law banning the popular video-sharing app TikTok. The law will go into effect ...

Officials from the Philippines and China have held talks on the disputed South China Sea. Manila expressed "serious concern" ...

Kobe remembers the past and ponders lessons learned from the devastating quake. NHK World's Yoshioka Takuma, who was born in ...

Israel's prime minister is expected to hold a cabinet meeting on Friday to approve an agreement with Hamas on a 6-week ...

Japan and China have agreed to keep communicating over early lifting of China's import ban on Japanese beef. The ban has ...