Reuters news agency says North Korea is expanding a weapons manufacturing complex that assembles a type of short-range ...

US President-elect Donald Trump says he will impose a 25 percent tariff on all products from Canada and Mexico, and an ...

Israeli media have reported that the country and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah may agree on a ceasefire shortly.

NHK has learned that Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru is arranging to officially announce this week that he will raise ...

The head of an international organization building an experimental nuclear fusion reactor has reported a nine-year delay in ...

The United States says one of its patrol aircraft flew through the Taiwan Strait on Tuesday, drawing a backlash from China.

The chairman of Keidanren or the Japan Business Federation told reporters that Trump's tariff plan could have an enormous ...

At least 15 people have died and seven remain missing on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, where torrential rains over the ...

Thailand is looking to boost "rainbow tourism." The move comes as the country's landmark same-sex marriage law is slated to ...

Japan charts lofty path for solar cell production Thin, flexible solar cells hold promise of a new industry in the making ...

A funeral and entombment ceremony for the late Princess Mikasa took place in Tokyo. She was 101 years old. The Princess's ...

A United Nations report says that in 2023, 60 percent of females killed globally were murdered by their intimate partners or ...