Balancing modernity and tradition is a challenge for any society. But in South Korea, young Jultagi trainees are taking up ...

Japanese police have arrested a Vietnamese man in connection with alleged cheating on a Japanese proficiency exam required ...

Some four years after the Taliban retook power in Afghanistan, no country has recognized the group as the legitimate ...

Cambodia is courting new trade and investment partners as its main ally, China, is caught in an economic slowdown and a trade ...

A heatwave has continued to grip much of Japan. The mercury reached 35 degrees Celsius or higher on Thursday for the third ...

Japanese police have referred four players and an official of the Saitama Seibu Lions pro baseball team to prosecutors for ...

NHK has obtained what is believed to be an operation manual written in the Russian language for a self-propelled artillery ...

Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako have begun a two-day visit to the atomic-bombed city of Hiroshima to pay their respects ...

Tokyo police have arrested six people on suspicion of laundering money swindled in social media investment scams.

A French parliamentary report says the government should apologize for nuclear tests conducted in the South Pacific and amend a compensation law for people suffering health impacts. NHK World's Tamura ...

Nippon Steel's buyout of US Steel has ended 18 months of difficult negotiations. Joseph Kraft, an expert on Japan-US ties, explains the significance of the deal.

Learning Tate, a choreographed Japanese sword-fighting and combat style, is getting popular in the United States. NHK World's Inoue Yuki goes behind the scenes at a stunt training dojo called Tate ...