China's state-run Xinhua News Agency reports that Chinese and US officials have agreed in online talks to expand economic and ...

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group has become Japan's top company by market value, highlighting the banking sector's resurgence.

Weather officials say that wide areas of Japan are continuing to deal with intense heat on Friday. They report that parts of ...

A women's clinic in Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, continues to support new mothers and other outpatients after it ...

Sources say Japan has intervened on the foreign exchange market. Yen-buying picked up during New York trading on Thursday, ...

Hikawa Town saw some of the strongest shaking, with over 120 buildings destroyed by the quake. NHK World's Miyamoto Rikuya met with the owners of one of them to ask what comes next.

US tech giant Apple reported net income of 29.789 billion dollars from April through June, marking 27.1 percent growth from a year earlier, thanks mainly to brisk sales of its iPhones.

A tragedy that led to the drowning deaths of dozens of children led to the enshrinement of swimming lessons in Japanese curricula. But many outdoor school pools are aging, and extreme weather is ...

A worker at a shopping mall severely damaged by an explosion after a major earthquake in Japan's Kumamoto Prefecture says the ...

An informal poll to choose the next UN secretary-general shows Rebeca Grynspan Mayufis from Costa Rica is the frontrunner.

New York is home to one of the largest Japanese American communities in the United States, built by the first generation of ...

Japan's Defense Ministry says one of its destroyers has conducted the country's first live-fire test of a Tomahawk cruise ...