NHK has learned that Japanese authorities have confiscated about one ton of dried cannabis that was shipped to Tokyo Port ...

The US government's annual report on the world's human rights situation has less to say about Israel than last year, but more ...

Eighty years after the Battle of Okinawa, thousands of victims remain unaccounted for. One man continues to search for the ...

Perplexity said on Tuesday that it is offering 34.5 billion dollars to acquire Chrome. The offer comes ahead of an expected ...

Record-breaking rain has saturated and loosened the ground in Japan's Kyushu region and other areas, mainly in the western ...

Paper lanterns painted by children are being used to light up a cemetery in a northeastern Japanese city hit by the 2011 ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has spoken by phone with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, ahead of a summit with US ...

Tokyo's benchmark stock index set a new all-time intra-day high for a second straight day. The Nikkei 225 was above 43,000 ...

South Korean President Lee Jae-myung will visit Japan on August 23 and 24 for talks with Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru.

The White House says Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will not join the planned summit between the US and Russian ...

On the Tokyo Stock Exchange, the benchmark Nikkei 225 index ended Tuesday at an all-time high of 42,718 points as buying ...

Three people have died after heavy rain triggered mudslides and swollen rivers in Japan's Kyushu region as of Tuesday. Heavy ...