Ishiba plans to reveal his new executive lineup on Monday and his Cabinet the following day. Ishiba has chosen General ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has indicated his willingness to step up the offensive against the Lebanon-based ...

A pair of giant pandas at Tokyo's Ueno Zoological Gardens have departed for China to spend the rest of their life in their ...

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Naha City in Okinawa Prefecture, southwestern Japan, has asked about 1,400 people to temporarily evacuate ahead of a large-scale operation to dispose of an unexploded bomb from World War Two scheduled ...

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