East Asia

The International Monetary Fund says Japan's policy challenge in the near term is to ensure that the 2 percent inflation target is reached durably....

Multiple US media outlets say the National Archives has asked former presidents and vice presidents to review their personal records for any classified documents or other presidential records....

Canada has joined Germany and the United States in sending battle tanks to Ukraine....

The United States has updated its sanctions on the Russian private military company Wagner Group and designated it as a...

Japanese weather officials are warning of heavy snow in areas along the Sea of Japan coast on Friday. Snow is also expected to accumulate in some parts along the Pacific in eastern and western Japan....

Consumer prices in Japan's capital continue to rise at their fastest pace in more than four decades....

Japan's ambassador to the United Nations has urged the Security Council to contribute to peace by investing in people in areas of conflict and elsewhere....

The British Defence Ministry says the majority of Russian troops who were training in Belarus have likely returned home. Its analysis suggests that these troops will...

Expectations are rising in central Japan's Nagano Prefecture that a natural phenomenon called...

Japan's Coast Guard says eight people from a cargo ship that capsized in the waters off the southwestern prefecture of Nagasaki have been confirmed dead. The search for nine others continues....

Russian leaders had warned of...

The US economy grew nearly 3 percent in the last quarter of 2022, despite high inflation, rising interest rates and the threat of a recession....

Media reports in Ukraine say Ukrainian forces have withdrawn from the town of Soledar in the country's eastern region of Donetsk....

The United States has imposed sanctions on the Russian private military company Wagner Group and designated it as a...

One of the arrested suspects in a burglary case in a Tokyo suburb has told police that he was afraid he would be ''purged';' if he talked to investigators....

Japan's health ministry will outline around early March how the medical system for coronavirus patients will change once the government downgrades the legal classification of COVID-19....

The World Health Organization will convene an expert committee on Friday to discuss whether COVID-19 remains a global health emergency....

Japan's Suzuki Motor unveiled its new growth strategy on Thursday, saying it will introduce electric vehicles in Japan, Europe and India....

US government data have shown that the country's gross domestic product grew at an annualized rate of 2.9 percent in real terms in the October-December period from the previous quarter....

The UN Command has determined that North Korea violated the 1953 Korean War Armistice by sending drones into South Korea's airspace in December last year....

Japan's Meteorological Agency is warning of possible eruptions for the Beyonesu Rocks or Bayonnaise Rocks, a small volcano in the Pacific Ocean, hundreds of kilometers off the coast of Tokyo....

The Japanese government is planning to downgrade COVID-19 on May 8 to the same category of infectious diseases as seasonal influenza....

Thailand and Cambodia are in a fight over a traditional martial art, outside the ring. They disagree on what the sport should be called at the upcoming Southeast Asian Games in Phnom Penh in May....

Taliban officials have said that more than one hundred people have died across the country so far this year due to Afghanistan's coldest winter in a decade....

India has marked the 74th anniversary of its constitution with a large-scale military parade highlighting...

Residents of Ukraine's capital Kyiv are being urged to remain in shelters after what is believed to be an explosion was heard on Thursday morning....

The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has launched a panel of experts to discuss ways to raise Japan's birthrate from the standpoint of workstyle reforms....

The International Olympic Committee says it will look at possible access to international sporting events for individual athletes from Russia and Belarus....

Japan has announced the final lineup of its 30-man team for the World Baseball Classic tournament that begins in March....

The Tokyo Stock Exchange has started the countdown for companies that do not meet its new criteria for the market's top section. It says firms will have a year from March 2025 to revise their businesses, or risk delisting....

Police in Tokyo have arrested seven people in connection with the robbery last year of cash worth over 270,000 dollars from a home in a Tokyo suburb. The arrests are part of a widening police investigation into a recent string of robberies around Japan....

A ceremony has been held in the US territory of Guam to mark the start of operations at a new US base, to which thousands of US Marines are to be transferred from Japan's southern prefecture of Okinawa....

US electric vehicle maker Tesla says it pulled in record revenue and profit in its latest quarterly earnings report as sales soared....

Japan's Toyota Motor says its president Toyoda Akio will become chairman on April 1st. He will maintain the right to represent the company....

Japan's health ministry says it confirmed 5,061 new cases of coronavirus infection in Tokyo on Thursday....

Heavy snow has brought traffic nightmares to parts of Japan. Vehicles became stranded on many roadways. Trains also got stuck with passengers on board, prompting railway officials to review procedures....

Ukraine's ambassador to Japan says victory is on the way, but not without help. NHK sat down with Sergiy Korsunsky to talk about Russia's invasion, now 11 months in....

Japan's Toyota Motor says its president Toyoda Akio will become chairman on April 1. Executive officer Sato Koji will assume the presidency....

Japan's prime minister is facing harsh questions and criticism over a major security policy shift. Lawmakers are back in the Diet for the first week of the new session. They're focused on Kishida Fumio's push to boost spending to enhance defen...

Bank of Japan policymakers believe current economic conditions call for keeping their ultra-easy monetary program in place. The officials cited...

Many experts at a Japanese health ministry panel have called for continuing the country's free COVID-19 vaccination program....

The Meiji Memorial Picture Gallery, a government-designated important cultural property in Tokyo, held a fire drill on Thursday....

Police in Japan will step up efforts to monitor and delete online information related to gun- and bomb-making starting in March....

A Japanese rocket carrying a government intelligence-gathering satellite has lifted off from Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan....

People across much of Japan are bundling up, hunching their shoulders, doing whatever they can to stay warm. Heavy snow has caused widespread disruption, with trains and vehicles stranded....

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the latest boosters appear to provide some protection against the new XBB-related subvariants of the Omicron coronavirus....

NHK has learned that police in Tokyo have arrested seven individuals linked to the theft last year of cash worth more than 270,000 dollars....

A knife-wielding man attacked passengers on a train in northern Germany on Wednesday, killing two people and injuring seven others....

Social media giant Meta says it will reinstate Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts....

A Russian court has ordered a prominent human rights organization to shut down as President Vladimir Putin's administration steps up the pressure on such groups....