Top American and Chinese negotiators will hold discussions on tariffs in Switzerland on Saturday. They will be the first ...

Hundreds of people in Gunma Prefecture, central Japan, have paraded with a special giant snake-shaped portable shrine for the ...

Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first mass as leader of the world's Roman Catholics. He prayed that the church could serve as a ...

Japan's Princess Kako, the second daughter of Crown Prince and Princess Akishino, will visit Brazil in June to mark the 130th ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin offered a defense of his country's invasion of Ukraine at a ceremony to mark the 80th ...

The suspect in a stabbing incident at a Tokyo subway station has begun revealing motives for the alleged attack to ...

Japanese weather officials are forecasting extremely heavy rain with thunder in western and eastern parts of the country ...

Japan's chief tariff negotiator has praised the efforts the US and UK in striking a trade deal. But he stressed that the ...

More than 80% of the country's 100 million inhabitants are Catholic. Filipinos nationwide are celebrating the new pope.

The central Japanese prefecture of Shizuoka, which has a trail to Mount Fuji, has enacted an ordinance amid risky behavior by ...

People in Japan woke up to news that a new pontiff has been chosen. As NHK World's Kitai Genki explains, many hope Pope Leo ...

There's a lot to learn about the new head of the Catholic Church. NHK World's Katsuki Takayuki explains Pope Leo's background ...