Investigative sources told NHK that police have detained a former employee at a nursing care facility in Saitama Prefecture, ...

China's consumer price index in September dropped 0.3 percent from a year earlier, as concerns over deflation persist.

Japanese journalist Nagai Kenji was shot dead while covering a protest in Myanmar in 2007. New analysis of the tape in his ...

Wednesday marks 23 years since five Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea were returned to Japan. Hasuike Kaoru and his ...

Israel has informed the United Nations that it will sharply reduce the flow of aid into the Gaza Strip starting Wednesday, ...

A survey by Japan's labor ministry has found that the increase in average wages hit a record high this year since ...

Two of Japan's major department store chains reported lower operating profit for the six months to August, mainly due to a ...

A Japanese entrepreneur is on a mission: reviving Japan's semiconductor industry. With over ten billion dollars of tax money ...

The International Monetary Fund raised its global economic growth forecast for this year, saying US import tariffs have had ...

A court in Germany has ordered the removal of a statue of a girl symbolizing those referred to as wartime comfort women in ...

In the latest NHK poll, 52 percent of respondents said they have expectations for the newly elected leader of Japan's ruling ...

General Motors says it will book a 1.6 billion-dollar charge in the three months that ended in September as it adjusts its ...