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 ...

Lineup: 1. Over 500 feared dead after loss of boats carrying Rohingya 2. Papua New Guinea to close Taiwan representative ...

The announcement by a mayor in Japan that she will take maternity leave has triggered a debate in a country that has long ...

US President Donald Trump has hinted at China's possible interference in US elections, maintaining that Beijing illicitly ...

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

Shipments of farmed eels are at their peak in Nishio City in central Japan's Aichi Prefecture, ahead of the Midsummer Day of ...

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.

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