Foreign residents were among both victims and rescuers after Kumamoto’s earthquake. A Vietnamese man who died and his ...

NHK has learned oyster farmers in Hiroshima will delay the harvest for the third straight year as heatwaves slow growth of ...

The Japanese government is considering cash handouts to farmers and fishers to ease the impact of a reduction in consumption ...

Researchers in Japan say women who are exposed to higher temperatures during the middle weeks of their pregnancy are more ...

Dolly Parton, who was known as the queen of country music, has died. She was 80 years old. Parton was born in 1946 in the ...

The United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross have urged countries to swiftly establish regulations on ...

The United States has announced that it is tightening sanctions on companies and individuals that do business with Iran, ...

A documentary film focusing on the families of children who were struck away by a tsunami when they were at school has ...

A former leader of the Japanese atomic bomb survivors group Nihon Hidankyo is battling dementia. But his passion remains to ...

A volcano on the island nation of Vanuatu in the South Pacific erupted on Tuesday. Meteorological officials in Japan are ...

A new boarding facility at Tokyo's Haneda Airport has been opened to the media ahead of its start of operations on September ...

A convenience store went up in flames on Monday night, in a fresh attack after dozens of incidents in the country's restive ...