The Japanese government has worked out measures to counter the risk of cyberattacks on key social infrastructure through ...

NHK has learned that some of the suspects in a fatal attack on a family north of Tokyo told police they had been threatened ...

Thailand's prime minister has ordered an investigation and tighter safety measures after a cargo train hit a bus in Bangkok, ...

The governments of Japan and South Korea have agreed to conduct DNA tests on remains recovered from an undersea coal mine in ...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says the closure of the Strait of Hormuz is a global crisis, bringing ...

A new recruit to a police mountain-rescue team has her work cut out as she learns the ropes of responding to calls for help ...

Growth in most of Southeast Asia's major economies slowed in the first quarter of this year as the Iran situation kept oil ...

A renowned Nepali mountain guide has broken his own world record for Everest climbs. Kami Rita Sherpa summited the world's ...

Wisteria plants that survived damage from heavy snowfalls have started to bloom in a garden in Akita Prefecture in northern ...

US news site Axios has reported that Cuba is discussing plans to attack a US military base and other targets using drones, ...

Japan's benchmark government bond yield is scaling 29-year highs. One expert says inflation worries fueled by the Middle East conflict are behind the rise.

A public health institute in Japan says the risk of an imported case of the deadly Ebola virus occurring or spreading in the ...