A court in Japan has ordered the operator of a Tokyo noodle shop to pay about 1 million yen, or around 6,500 dollars, to a ...

The North Korean men's soccer team has arrived in Japan for the Asian Games. The event starts in Nagoya later this month.

A court in Hong Kong has sentenced the organizers of a vigil for the victims of China's 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. They ...

Leaders of the BRICS group of emerging economies are gathering in India. The two-day summit meeting is set to begin Saturday ...

Japan's government plans to update a procedure for repatriating the remains of people who died overseas in World War Two. The aim is to bring them back faster when possible.

US Republicans have wrapped up the party's first-ever midterm convention in Texas. US President Donald Trump closed the ...

Friday marks 25 years since the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States. The country is now grappling with how to ...

China exported more than 1 million new vehicles for the third straight month in August. The number includes gasoline, ...

A Japanese version of the Equal Earth map has been revised to show the Japanese territorial color for the Northern ...

Japan's wholesale inflation remained high in August, reflecting rising prices of oil products due to the Middle East ...

NHK has learned that Japan's Chubu Electric Power Company is making final arrangements to withdraw its application to the ...

A government survey shows the percentage of young single people in Japan who intend to marry has fallen below 80 percent for ...