A Japanese expert on Middle East affairs says that Israel's reported attack against Iran was carried out with restraint.

A US think tank says two Chinese warships are anchored at a Cambodian port seen as having key strategic value.

A North Korean vice foreign minister has denounced the US ambassador to the United Nations for visiting Japan and South Korea ...

The operator of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has begun the fifth round of the release of treated and diluted ...

NHK has learned that a portable battery charger may have caused a fatal fire last week at a lodging house in Kawasaki City ...

NHK has learned that a Japanese research institute has confirmed the presence of at least two additional unintended ...

Anthropocene is when human activity started profoundly impacting our planet. Inconvenient truths pile up in some of Indonesia ...

Noto-Kashima Station in Ishikawa Prefecture is so rich in cherry blossoms, known as sakura in Japanese, it is also called ...

Japan has decided to extend the deployment of its Self-Defense Force members in South Sudan by one month to June 30. They are ...

Cherry blossoms at a park in Japan's northeastern prefecture of Aomori are in full bloom. Hirosaki Park is home to about ...

The Japanese consulate in Karachi, Pakistan, says one Japanese man suffered minor injuries when the car he was in came under ...

Tokyo stocks ended sharply lower on Friday on concerns about slowing semiconductor demand and Israel's apparent air strikes ...