China's government says Chinese nationals should avoid travelling to Japan for the time being, due to the risk of major ...

Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado has expressed her resolve to achieve ...

Japanese-Americans exposed to radiation in Hiroshima and Nagasaki returned to the US to discover it had no medical support ...

A partnership allowing customers of Uber Japan to collect Rakuten points shows how technology companies are adapting to find ...

Born to a Palestinian refugee family, Omar Yahgi has become one of three winners of this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry for ...

NHK has learned that an amount of more than 500 million yen, or about 3.3 million dollars, in unused campaign funds for the ...

Myanmar's pro-democracy camp says 35 people have been killed in an airstrike by the country's ruling military on a hospital ...

The UN has analyzed the damage in Sri Lanka caused by the recent Cyclone Ditwah. It says one-fifth of the country's land has ...

South Korea's Oceans Minister has offered to resign over allegations that he received money from the Family Federation for ...

Deadly clashes between Thailand and Cambodia have entered a fourth day, with no signs of the violence abating. Around 450,000 ...

The Lower House of Japan's Diet has passed a supplementary budget bill for this fiscal year. The budget totals around 18.3 ...

The US Federal Reserve has cut rates for the third time in a row in a bid to steady a weakening jobs market. One economist ...