The United Nations General Assembly has adopted a resolution calling for the immediate return of Ukrainian children who were ...

Thursday marks one month since Typhoon Kalmaegi made landfall in the Philippines, leaving more than 250 people dead.

A senior Kremlin official has acknowledged that talks with the United States to negotiate a settlement in Ukraine failed to ...

In economic powerhouse India, the huge problem of acid attacks against women persists. Survivors are showing their faces and ...

The death toll from last week's torrential rains in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand has climbed past 1,400. On the western Indonesian island of Sumatra, rain-triggered flooding and landslides have ...

NATO foreign ministers met in Brussels on Wednesday and reaffirmed their commitment to providing military support for Ukraine. Secretary General Mark Rutte said the alliance is "not going anywhere." ...

A school lunch center built with support from a Japanese company has been completed at a kindergarten in Ukraine, where the Russian invasion continues.

The widow of former Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo has for the first time attended a hearing of the trial of the man ...

The Japanese government is weighing legal changes that would let married couples use their original surnames in a wider range ...

NHK spoke with Kanni Wignaraja, director of the Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific at the United Nations Development ...

South Korean President Lee Jae-myung has stressed his intention to promote ties with Japan. He also expressed readiness to ...

Japanese scientist Kitagawa Susumu, one of the winners of this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry, has left for Sweden to attend ...