Japan's Diet has passed a bill to penalize the act of damaging the country's national flag. The bill was approved at the ...

Tonegawa Susumu, the first Japanese recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, died on July 11 at the age of 86.

NHK WORLD-JAPAN presents a sumo highlights program for fans around the globe. Today the show features all top-division bouts ...

NHK WORLD-JAPAN presents a sumo highlights program for fans around the globe. Today the show features all top-division bouts ...

Massive wildfires raging across east-central Canada are affecting a wide area, including New York, where authorities are ...

A bill to reform the retrial system has cleared Japan's Diet. The legislation will basically ban prosecutors from appealing ...

Police in Chiba Prefecture, neighboring Tokyo, arrested on Wednesday a former hospital nurse on suspicion of killing a patient by putting him on an intravenous drip contaminated with excrement.

Hostilities continued to escalate between the United States and Iran on Thursday. US Central Command says it has launched new ...

Japan's Nikkei 225 stock index plunged for the second straight session on Friday as investors offloaded AI and chip-related ...

Britain's ruling Labour Party closed out the nomination process for a new leader on Thursday. Andy Burnham is now set to ...

Bingata, the Okinawan art of fabric dyeing, has been prized since the days of the Ryukyu Kingdom (15th-19th century). However ...

Ukraine's Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov is expected to step down, raising concern that fighting against Russia could be ...