Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has called on businesses worldwide and others to proactively engage in research and ...

Foreign residents in Ehime Prefecture, western Japan, took part in the Buddhist practice of "shabutsu," in which they traced ...

The Islamic group Hamas said on Monday it approved a ceasefire proposal, and media reports said it included the release of 10 ...

US President Donald Trump has said the United States will not send ground troops to Ukraine for security guarantees after a ...

A Japan-led global conference on African development will open in Yokohama, near Tokyo, on Wednesday. Our site uses cookies ...

Ishikawa Mao is an award-winning photographer who has been documenting the lives of people in Okinawa for 50 years. She talks about what she wants to express through her work.

Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru has stressed the importance of realizing a ceasefire and a just and lasting peace for ...

Police and fire department officials began an on-site investigation on Tuesday into a deadly fire that broke out the previous ...

About 80 Japanese police investigators left for Cambodia on Tuesday morning to bring home and arrest Japanese nationals ...

The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has begun surveying one of its damaged reactor units with ...

South Korean President Lee Jae-myung's administration is set to appoint former diplomat Lee Hyuk as ambassador to Japan.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the US security guarantees Ukraine is seeking include a package of American ...