This festival, held by World Heritage Kamigamo and Shimogamo Shrines, ties the community together through the Shinto faith ...

Produced by RKB Mainichi Broadcasting】 Near the end of World War II, a Japanese soldier executed four American POWs. A year ...

Iran's foreign ministry has indicated that, regarding negotiations with Oman over a new shipping route through the Strait of ...

Our explorer gains an insight into "iki," a unique aesthetic cultivated by the people of Edo, now known as Tokyo. Defined by ...

Japan's Consumer Affairs Agency has ordered the operator of a popular photo-editing app to stop using social media ...

NHK has learned a recruitment information company survey shows nearly half of young career changers in Japan are interested ...

A large, powerful typhoon is expected to approach Japan's southern regions of Okinawa and Amami. People in those areas are ...

Former Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina says she plans to return home from exile in India later this year.

The US Senate has confirmed Dr. Erica Schwartz as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, ending nearly a ...

The Sendai Tanabata Festival, one of the most popular summer events in the Tohoku region, northeastern Japan, started on ...

Thai human rights commissioners have visited Soga Hitomi, a Japanese national who was abducted by North Korea and eventually ...

For decades, counseling groups across Japan have helped atomic bomb survivors. Now efforts are underway to archive their ...