The Liberal Democratic Party's unsuccessful candidates in last month's Upper House election say that Japan's main governing ...

East Japan Railway plans to raise fares by an average of 7.1 percent from next March in its first across-the-board price hike ...

The administration of US President Donald Trump is ending a tariff exemption for low-value imports. Starting August 29, ...

Investors in Tokyo are offloading shares after US employment numbers on Friday missed expectations, signaling a slowdown in ...

Two Chinese government ships reentered Japan's territorial waters off the Senkaku Islands in Okinawa Prefecture early Monday, ...

Russia and Ukraine exchanged tit-for-tat attacks as US President Donald Trump stepped up pressure for a truce. US special ...

A dangerous heatwave is expected to continue gripping wide areas of Japan from the Tohoku region in the northeastern to the ...

Four men who died inside a manhole in Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo, on Saturday are believed to have succumbed to toxic ...

Japan's Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru says he will do all he can to urge US President Donald Trump to quickly sign an executive order to cut auto tariffs, following last month's agreement between the ...

At this local chalk factory in Japan, 69 of the 96 employees have intellectual disabilities. As veteran workers prepare to ...

We introduce NHK's live, international coverage of Japan's Upper House election, which took place on July 20. We go behind ...

Karate, Taekwondo, Capoeira—"Kicks" have evolved in different ways worldwide. Now, an Okinawan Karate master and a Muay Thai ...