The Bank of Japan says it will raise its benchmark interest rate to around 0.75 percent, the highest level in 30 years.

A Shinto shrine in central Japan has put up a huge "hagoita" wooden paddle bearing a picture of a horse. The priests there ...

Sake brewers from Ehime Prefecture in Japan are making a push to promote their local products in Hong Kong, where the drink ...

After facing increasing pressure from the US, leaders in Venezuela have urged the United Nations Security Council to meet.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged European leaders to step up their support. He has called on them to agree ...

Japanese prosecutors have demanded life in prison for a man charged with fatally shooting former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo in ...

NHK has learned that DNA analysis has established that three sets of remains retrieved from a mass burial site on Palau's ...

A Japanese health ministry panel and a network of groups supporting child cancer patients will conduct the first nationwide ...

Join Harry Sugiyama and chef Hayashi for a fresh, fast master class in ultra-simple Japanese cooking, where shrimp and eggs ...

Nippori is known as one of Japan's top districts for textiles. The hillsides are home to many Buddhist temples that ...

A senior official at Japan's Prime Minister's Office has expressed the view that the country "should possess nuclear weapons.

This episode explores moss and possible uses of its extraordinary ability to absorb and retain water, and how ultrasound can ...