European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has stressed that the European Union will explore common interests with ...

Japan's Meteorological Agency has held a news conference after issuing the maximum level-5 heavy rain emergency warning for ...

Saturday marks 35 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. A German political scientist who spoke to NHK on the eve of the ...

With Yokozuna Terunofuji absent, it was Sekiwake Onosato, 24, who claimed the Emperor's Cup. He defeated Ozeki Kotozakura and ...

US media are reporting that US President-elect Donald Trump is in the process of considering candidates for key posts in his ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says North Korean soldiers joined battles against his country's forces in Russia's ...

The first test retrieval of fuel debris from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has just been completed.

Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru said on Wednesday that as nuclear deterrence is needed given the current international ...

Popular Japanese comedian Matsumoto Hitoshi has dropped a defamation lawsuit against a publisher and one of its magazine ...

Japan's ruling coalition has begun policy talks with an opposition party in a bid to reach an agreement on a new economic ...

The governor of the US state of California has called a special legislative session to safeguard what he calls "California ...

Japanese police are investigating whether a group of poachers arrested in Hokkaido, northern Japan, were solicited by a ...