A major US newspaper says the administration of US President Donald Trump is preparing to impose sweeping sanctions on the ...

In Sunday's German state parliamentary elections, the Alternative for Germany, or AfD, party has become the leading party in ...

Two relatives of Japanese nationals who are among those abducted by North Korean agents decades ago left Japan for the United ...

The United States has warned its citizens across the Middle East to exercise heightened vigilance amid the escalating ...

Ukraine has carried out large-scale attacks on an oil refinery and other sites in Russia's capital amid the country's ...

Monday marks two years since torrential rain devastated the Noto Peninsula, the central Japanese region facing the Sea of Japan.

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has disclosed that he proposed a notification mechanism with China on incidents involving artificial intelligence ahead of a summit between the two countries' ...

Kage Keita is a correspondent with the NHK General Bureau for Asia. He mainly covers economic news from across the region. He joined NHK in 2005 and was previously stationed at the Yamagata and Sendai ...

World leaders will start the general debate at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday. US President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae are among those scheduled to speak ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency has issued a Level Five Emergency Warning for Oshima Town in the Izu Islands, Tokyo Prefecture. It's the highest level of alert on the agency's scale of one to five.

Being safe and smart are key during a Level Five Emergency Warning. Our meteorologist Jonathan Oh tells us what those of you in the affected areas need to do now.

A senior Iranian official says Tehran has conveyed to the United States seven conditions for resuming talks on ending the ...