Ise Jingu, one of Japan's most significant shrines, is rebuilt every 20 years in a special ceremony. In preparation for its ...

Many towns in Japan have tried to counter depopulation by offering incentives to attract new residents. But a town in ...

People have gathered outside a city hall in Ibaraki Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, to call on the city to reject an initial ...

A Japanese researcher who narrowly escaped last week's flash flooding in Nepal has shared the horror of what she witnessed.

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has commented about Japan's monetary policy ahead of the G20 meeting of finance chiefs in ...

Participants have competed to see how fast and how far they could run across logs floating on a lake in a town in Tokushima ...

Europe increasingly sees Japan as a stable partner in an unstable world. Now Belgium plans to station a defense attache in ...

Scam centers are surging across Southeast Asia. Governments in the region are struggling to respond, driving calls for ...

US forces have struck two Iranian rocket launchers on Larak Island in the Strait of Hormuz. A US official told NHK that the ...

The death toll from Wednesday's massive flash flooding in a border region between Nepal and China has reached 797, with more ...

A ferry carrying more than 260 people has capsized off the coast of Cyprus in the Mediterranean, leaving seven people dead ...

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization, or SCO, is opening its summit at Kyrgyzstan's capital, Bishkek, on Monday.