Deforestation is ravaging the Amazon. Illegal loggers are destroying wide tracts of forest and massive agricultural ...

This time we break down "kimedashi," a power move where a rikishi locks their opponent's arms and marches them out of the ...

Inventive Incentives] This episode dives into how some companies are modifying and expanding the perks and benefits they ...

An outdoor community pool in Ehime is super cheap even with a competition pool and water slides. It's been a local hotspot ...

Forty years ago, Akamatsu Ryoko, a visionary woman advocated for the passage of Japan's Equal Employment Opportunity Act. Now ...

The widow of former Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo has for the first time attended a hearing of the trial of the man ...

The Japanese government is weighing legal changes that would let married couples use their original surnames in a wider range ...

NHK spoke with Kanni Wignaraja, director of the Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific at the United Nations Development ...

Japanese scientist Kitagawa Susumu, one of the winners of this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry, has left for Sweden to attend ...

In Indonesia, days of torrential rain have triggered deadly floods and mudslides, killing at least 770 people and leaving ...

Doctors in Japan have begun a gene therapy trial for patients with an intractable children's disease. But bringing it to ...

Pakistan authorities say the country has about 600,000 unlicensed doctors. Sindh province officials are fighting to shut them ...