Sonoda Aya of Doctors Without Borders gives an inside perspective on the fight against the Ebola outbreak gripping the ...

A Nepali official reportedly says he thinks dozens of workers trapped in a hydropower plant may still be alive more than a ...

Discover Zenkoji Temple in Nagano, where everyone from ordinary people to shoguns has come to pray for nearly 1,400 years.

Insurance fraud in Japan is increasing, from arson in insured vacant buildings to inflated claims disguised as disaster ...

The poet Matsuo Basho wrote Oku no Hosomichi as a travel diary that includes many haiku masterpieces inspired by actual ...

US forces said they have succeeded in hitting Iranian military sites in their latest round of attacks. However, Iranian ...

Japan's agriculture ministry has held a briefing for potato farmers about its response to a US request that Japan lift its ...

The latest survey by the US Federal Reserve shows that the country's economy remains solid. The findings were released in the ...

Shirakawa Hideki, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2000 for his ground-breaking discovery and development of plastics ...

A cross-party group of Japanese Diet members for Japan-China friendship is planning to visit China this month to help mend ...

Russia held a ceremony in its Far East region on Thursday to mark the former Soviet Union's victory over Japan during World ...

Political candidates in the US are kicking their campaigns into gear two months ahead of the midterm elections on November 3.