South Korea's fertility rate rose for the second straight year in 2025 to 0.80. Still, it remains among the lowest in the ...

Japan's telecom giant NTT Docomo says it will end its 3G network service for its feature phones at the end of March.

Four years after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, its citizens forge on, enduring deadly attacks and days without power or heat ...

A festival celebrating the beauty of plum flowers is underway in western Japan, as winter turns into early spring. Visitors ...

The San'in Kaigan Geopark Trail is a 230-kilometer-long course connecting the Sea of Japan coastline along Tottori, Hyogo, ...

A British think tank says global defense spending in 2025 has reached a record 2.63 trillion dollars, up 2.5 percent from the ...

The Tokyo Stock Exchange's benchmark index hit an intraday high on Wednesday morning. This followed an overnight rally in the ...

US President Donald Trump's State of the Union address spoke to some specific diplomatic issues. NHK World's Stephanie Chen walks us through what did and didn't get mentioned in the speech.

A venture company in Japan says it is preparing to launch clinical trials for transplanting stem cells developed from iPS cells into patients with damaged spinal cords.

Classic 'Hina' dolls are on display in what used to be a post town located along an old highway in western Japan's Hyogo Prefecture. Many of the dolls are shown engaged in scenes from contemporary ...

The bidding war is heating up to acquire media and entertainment giant Warner Bros. Discovery. Paramount Skydance has raised its offer to buy all of the company to fight off a bid from Netflix.

Conservation efforts are paying off in northern Japan. The return of big snow geese flocks marks success in creating a ...