People in Japan are remembering the victims of the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system on the 31st anniversary of the ...

North Korean media have reported that the country's leader Kim Jong Un oversaw a drill involving a new model of main battle ...

The number of elderly foreigners who grapple with language difficulties and isolation is rising in Shinjuku, Tokyo. We take a ...

A US-based international human rights group says its freedom score for the United States has hit the lowest since the start ...

NHK WORLD-JAPAN will broadcast GRAND SUMO March Tournament Day 15 action live from Osaka, as top wrestlers have their ...

Authorities in Lebanon say more than 1,000 people have been killed in the country since Israeli forces and the Shia Muslim ...

Tokyo Electric Power Company says it will resume power generation at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant in Niigata ...

Pakistan and Afghanistan have entered a pause in fighting for the Islamic festival of Eid-al-Fitr. This comes days after an ...

Investigators in Hong Kong say a massive fire that devastated a high-rise residential complex in November was most likely ...

Authorities in Hiroshima City have found hair inside urns containing the unclaimed remains of 52 atomic bomb victims.

The chief of a power industry association in Japan says the country's dependence on the Middle East for liquefied natural gas ...

Thailand's Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has won a parliamentary vote to keep him in office. This follows last month's ...