Hikawa Town saw some of the strongest shaking, with over 120 buildings destroyed by the quake. NHK World's Miyamoto Rikuya ...

China's state-run Xinhua News Agency reports that Chinese and US officials have agreed in online talks to expand economic and ...

Weather officials say that wide areas of Japan are continuing to deal with intense heat on Friday. They report that parts of ...

A women's clinic in Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, continues to support new mothers and other outpatients after it ...

Sources say Japan has intervened on the foreign exchange market. Yen-buying picked up during New York trading on Thursday, ...

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group has become Japan's top company by market value, highlighting the banking sector's resurgence.

False information spread rapidly on social media after the magnitude 7.1 earthquake in Kumamoto, with fake rescue pleas, AI-generated videos and conspiracy theories circulating and potentially ...

A tragedy that led to the drowning deaths of dozens of children led to the enshrinement of swimming lessons in Japanese ...

An informal poll to choose the next UN secretary-general shows Rebeca Grynspan Mayufis from Costa Rica is the frontrunner.

New York is home to one of the largest Japanese American communities in the United States, built by the first generation of ...

A worker at a shopping mall severely damaged by an explosion after a major earthquake in Japan's Kumamoto Prefecture says the ...

Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae has unveiled her plan to lower the consumption tax for food items to 1 percent for two years. An economist says it may provide a short-term boost to the economy, ...