Fossils are being discovered in Minamisanriku, which was devastated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. A fisher is now ...

Investigative sources told NHK that police have detained a former employee at a nursing care facility in Saitama Prefecture, ...

NHK has learned that Japan's Sapporo Holdings has given preferential negotiating rights to overseas investment funds for the ...

Disciples of Japanese swordsmanship from around the world gathered in Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, to sharpen their ...

Wednesday marks 23 years since five Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea were returned to Japan. Hasuike Kaoru and his ...

China's consumer price index in September dropped 0.3 percent from a year earlier, as concerns over deflation persist.

Israel has informed the United Nations that it will sharply reduce the flow of aid into the Gaza Strip starting Wednesday, ...

A survey by Japan's labor ministry has found that the increase in average wages hit a record high this year since ...

Japanese journalist Nagai Kenji was shot dead while covering a protest in Myanmar in 2007. New analysis of the tape in his ...

In the latest NHK poll, 52 percent of respondents said they have expectations for the newly elected leader of Japan's ruling ...

A court in Germany has ordered the removal of a statue of a girl symbolizing those referred to as wartime comfort women in ...

Two of Japan's major department store chains reported lower operating profit for the six months to August, mainly due to a ...