The Liberal Democratic Party's unsuccessful candidates in last month's Upper House election say that Japan's main governing ...

East Japan Railway plans to raise fares by an average of 7.1 percent from next March in its first across-the-board price hike ...

Investors in Tokyo are offloading shares after US employment numbers on Friday missed expectations, signaling a slowdown in ...

Russia and Ukraine exchanged tit-for-tat attacks as US President Donald Trump stepped up pressure for a truce. US special ...

The administration of US President Donald Trump is ending a tariff exemption for low-value imports. Starting August 29, ...

Two Chinese government ships reentered Japan's territorial waters off the Senkaku Islands in Okinawa Prefecture early Monday, ...

A dangerous heatwave is expected to continue gripping wide areas of Japan from the Tohoku region in the northeastern to the ...

Four men who died inside a manhole in Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo, on Saturday are believed to have succumbed to toxic ...

We introduce NHK's live, international coverage of Japan's Upper House election, which took place on July 20. We go behind ...

At this local chalk factory in Japan, 69 of the 96 employees have intellectual disabilities. As veteran workers prepare to ...

Karate, Taekwondo, Capoeira—"Kicks" have evolved in different ways worldwide. Now, an Okinawan Karate master and a Muay Thai ...

Dangerously intense heat continued to grip many parts of Japan on Sunday, with temperatures reaching 35 degrees Celsius or ...