Sources say Tokyo Electric Power Company has decided to restart a reactor at its nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture on ...

Visitors to terraced rice paddies on the coast of the Noto Peninsula in central Japan were served freshly-made rice cakes on ...

A bipartisan group of US lawmakers has submitted a resolution to the House of Representatives condemning what they call the ...

Japan's Emperor Emeritus Akihito turned 92 years old on Tuesday.

Russian investigative authorities say a senior military officer was killed in a car explosion in Moscow on Monday. The ...

Hong Kong police have arrested 15 people over the theft of suitcases containing about one billion yen in cash, or about 6.3 ...

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, says the eighth launch of the H3 rocket has ended in failure due to a ...

Executive Acting Secretary-General of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party Hagiuda Koichi has met with Taiwan President ...

Foreign ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations have held talks in Malaysia to address a renewed outbreak ...

Japan's education ministry says 7,087 public school teachers took sick leave for depression and other mental health issues in ...

Japanese baseball star Murakami Munetaka has signed a contract with the Chicago White Sox. US media outlets say they agreed ...

NHK has learned that Japanese authorities plan to facilitate the return home of an underage Thai girl who was forced to ...