A festival to savor blowfish has attracted visitors to Shimonoseki City in the western Japanese prefecture of Yamaguchi.

Japanese defense ministry officials have been monitoring a Russian Navy vessel near the southwestern prefectures of Miyazaki and Okinawa.

A nuclear-powered US submarine has made a port call in South Korea, and defense officials in Pyongyang are bristling. A spokesperson says the move further escalates military tensions in the region.

US President Donald Trump is planning new 25 percent tariffs on all foreign steel and aluminum. The move would hit top ...

Russia's state-run media say Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend an event in Moscow in May to commemorate the victory in ...

A group of investors led by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has reportedly made a bid worth 97.4 billion dollars to purchase OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT.

US President Donald Trump has floated the idea of canceling a ceasefire agreement between Israel and the Islamic group Hamas in the Gaza Strip if hostages held by Hamas are not released by Saturday.

Power-hungry AI data centers are driving up electricity demand in the US. This may lead to increased use of fossil fuel power plants, but green-focused firms are still seeking ways to trim carbon ...

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has lashed out at US President Donald Trump's approach of seeking negotiations while pressuring Tehran.

China's media say the country started countermeasures early on Monday against the additional tariffs placed on Chinese ...

Japan's Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru gifted US President Donald Trump a golden samurai helmet and a Japanese vase when the ...

Donald Trump and Ishiba Shigeru are very different leaders. But they've defied the naysayers with their first summit. NHK World's Kikuyama Kengo explains how and why.