Ongoing conflict in the Persian Gulf is driving up oil prices worldwide. NHK World's Kim Chan-ju explains how, in South Korea ...

Japan's Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae says that she has gained the understanding of US President Donald Trump about the ...

A British think tank says the United States and Israel have used well over 11,000 munitions in the first 16 days of their ...

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un have signed a treaty of friendship and ...

A full-scale reconstruction project has started in a coastal area of Wajima City on Japan's Noto Peninsula. A large fire ...

A senior Chinese Communist Party official has stressed the importance of political solutions to ongoing conflicts in a speech ...

Japan's telecom giant NTT Docomo will end its 3G network service, mainly used by feature phones, next week. NTT Docomo is ...

A US jury has found IT giants Meta and Google responsible for the suffering of a 20-year-old woman who says she became ...

Niizawa Iwao has won first place for four straight years in two globally influential sake awards. He talks about brewing sake ...

Japan's western prefecture of Wakayama has reviewed its estimates for the intensities of an anticipated mega quake and the ...

The bullet train line that connects Japan's main island of Honshu and the northern prefecture of Hokkaido marked the 10th ...

Investigative sources say a man arrested for allegedly intruding into the Chinese embassy grounds in Tokyo said he wanted to ...