A spate of bear attacks in Japan has prompted a surge in downloads of an app that alerts users when they approach an area ...

The Grand Sumo tournament kicks off in Kyushu after a headline-making jaunt in London. NHK World's Shibuya Aki and Raja ...

Japanese gaming giant Nintendo has raised its sales forecast for the current fiscal year to more than 2 trillion yen, a ...

Wednesday is World Tsunami Awareness Day, but knowing how to prepare for one is valuable all year long. A group of people ...

Major convenience store chain FamilyMart has launched a new service for people with hearing impairments. The move comes ahead ...

US Steel has laid out plans for what it calls the next era of growth in its partnership with Nippon Steel. The company on ...

A Japanese university student who documented his battle with terminal cancer on social media platform X left a posthumous ...

The United Nations has announced that it confirmed famine conditions in two Sudanese cities. The UN is calling for an end to ...

The United Nations has announced that it confirmed "famine" conditions in two Sudanese cities. The UN is calling for an end ...

Tokyo's Nikkei 225 stock index took a dive below the 50,000 mark on Wednesday, tracking the overnight drop in the tech-heavy ...

US media outlets say Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani is now projected to win the New York City mayoral election held on ...

Britain's Defence Ministry says about 1.14 million Russian military personnel have likely been killed or wounded since Moscow ...