Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has stressed that Russia is a nuclear power and warned against the continued military ...

In Gunma Prefecture, we meet Pakistani Aziz Ahmed who helps children that have to interpret for foreign parents with limited ...

The U.S. Fed has started long-awaited cuts to interest rates. And Japan has this year ended 17 years of zero interest rates.

The sale of sexual videos and photographs of minors is a lucrative international industry. Part two of our series examines ...

Sanagijima Island is home to lots of free-roaming cats. Kuji rests on some cool shrine steps. Other cats hang out close to ...

Potter Baba Kojiro uses stones from the quarry that is said to have produced Japan's first porcelain but was abandoned for ...

The Lebanon-based Shia Muslim group Hezbollah has confirmed that its leader Hassan Nasrallah died in an Israeli airstrike.

US President Joe Biden has called the death of Hezbollah's leader Hassan Nasrallah from an Israeli airstrike a "measure of ...

A spacecraft has been launched on a mission to bring back two astronauts who have been at the International Space Station as a Boeing Starliner returned to Earth earlier this month without them over ...

Japanese weather officials say Tropical Storm Krathon will likely approach the southwestern islands of Okinawa Prefecture ...

An annual festival celebrating cultural exchanges between Japan and South Korea is underway in Tokyo, following one in Seoul ...

NHK has learned that a shortage of school teachers in Japan is becoming increasingly serious. The Japanese public broadcaster ...