A business in Kurashiki City, Okayama Prefecture turns to wedding tourism in hopes of attracting inbound couples looking to ...

Tama New Town is a vast residential development in western Tokyo. Once the object of admiration, its aging population has ...

Kabuki dance started as a showpiece for a female character, but then dances for male characters appeared - dances daring, ...

In September, NHK WORLD-JAPAN focuses on Aichi. "Traveling the Season of Japan" captures its scenery over a year. "Treasure ...

People in India are hailing the actions of the Indian pilot who helped thwart a catastrophe on the Flydubai flight that came ...

The new president of electric parts maker Nidec has vowed to rebuild the company after a series of accounting and product ...

Multiple NATO sources say Russia has sent an informal letter to NATO, in which Moscow warned it is ready to use nuclear ...

NHK has learned that the government has wrapped up draft requirements for Japan's potential "secondary capital." The ...

The yield on the 10-year US Treasury bond on Thursday briefly hit 5.34 percent, the highest since 2002. Investors are selling ...

Three banks in northeastern Japan are moving toward integration talks. The discussions will involve Aomori Michinoku Bank, ...

Russian forces have launched massive strikes against energy facilities in Kyiv. A US think tank released an analysis on ...

Former Japanese Defense Minister Onodera Itsunori has met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv. They ...