Tokyo's Shibuya district attracted a larger Halloween crowd than last year on Thursday night, despite calls by the ward office for people not to visit. Many foreign nationals in costumes also ...

North Korea says the missile it test-fired on Thursday was the latest model of the Hwasong-19 intercontinental ballistic missile. This is the first time the country has reported a launch of its ...

The Ukrainian government has shown NHK its naval drone Magura -- Maritime Autonomous Guard Unmanned Robotic Apparatus. It says the drones have achieved results in the fight against Russia.

The state-run Korean Central News Agency reported that the country's leader Kim Jong Un attended the launch. An NHK camera on Hokkaido's Okushiri Island caught footage of white objects appearing ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he has agreed with South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol to strengthen cooperation between their countries in light of North Korea's dispatch of its ...

The talks resumed on Sunday in Qatar, which serves as a mediator. US news site Axios reports that the director of the US Central Intelligence Agency, William Burns, who joined the talks ...

Last month, during a Chinese-language news segment on Japan Broadcasting Corp.’s (NHK) international radio broadcast, an external Chinese staff member made unscripted comments after reading the ...

Japan's nuclear regulatory body has officially decided that a nuclear power plant reactor in Fukui Prefecture, central Japan, failed a safety review for its restart. The rejection of restart plans ...

Japan's largest opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and Democratic Party for the People agreed to discuss how to work together on a policy-by-policy basis. The DPFP's support could ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has expressed concern that fighting between Ukrainian forces and North Korean troops will not only bring instability to the war situation but also to the ...

Weather officials in Japan are forecasting heavy rain in western and eastern parts of the country on Saturday due to the effects of a low pressure system and weather front. The Meteorological ...

The Tokyo Stock Exchange will extend its daily trading hours by 30 minutes from November 5 and introduce a closing auction session, in a bid to energize the market. The market is currently open ...