Discover Zenkoji Temple in Nagano, where everyone from ordinary people to shoguns has come to pray for nearly 1,400 years.

Insurance fraud in Japan is increasing, from arson in insured vacant buildings to inflated claims disguised as disaster ...

The poet Matsuo Basho wrote Oku no Hosomichi as a travel diary that includes many haiku masterpieces inspired by actual ...

A Nepali official reportedly says he thinks dozens of workers trapped in a hydropower plant may still be alive more than a ...

Shirakawa Hideki, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2000 for his ground-breaking discovery and development of plastics ...

Russia held a ceremony in its Far East region on Thursday to mark the former Soviet Union's victory over Japan during World ...

Sonoda Aya of Doctors Without Borders gives an inside perspective on the fight against the Ebola outbreak gripping the ...

Indonesia's central bank has welcomed a new governor. The former senior deputy head is the first woman to lead the bank. Her ...

Rescue efforts are continuing in central Nepal after the recent devastating flood. Among the missing are hundreds of workers ...

A cross-party group of Japanese Diet members for Japan-China friendship is planning to visit China this month to help mend ...

Japan's agriculture ministry has held a briefing for potato farmers about its response to a US request that Japan lift its ...

Japan's Emperor Emeritus Akihito will turn 93 years old this year with no major health issues. NHK has learned that the ...