Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has dissolved the lower house of Parliament, paving the way for a Feb. 8 snap election.

The setback occurred hours after one of the world’s largest nuclear complexes restarted, ending more than a decade of ...

Meticulously constructed and shot, this four part anthology series gets Murakami’s love of moving from the mundane to the ...

Japan is reviving nuclear power, balancing the need for more clean energy against the lingering trauma of the 2011 Fukushima ...

Shinzo Abe was giving a speech outside a train station in Nara when he was shot on July 8, 2022.

As Robert F. Kennedy Jr slashes the US childhood vaccine roster, Japan is racing to make up for lost ground after decades of ...

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung and Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi agreed to step up cooperation between the ...

PM Sanae Takaichi may capitalise on high approval ratings and take the country to the polls in February, per local media. If ...

Every January, a new taiga series debuts on public broadcaster NHK, unfolding over the year. It’s a Sunday night ritual for many that has been going on for more than six decades. The taiga — literally ...

Beijing has criticized a decision by Panamanian local authorities to remove a monument to Chinese contributions to the Panama Canal. This comes amid rising tensions between the United States and China ...

For 19-year-old Keiichi Yasunaga, the year 2050 lies somewhere beyond the visible horizon. It’s the era of his parents’ retirement, his own middle age, a period his generation tends to put out of mind ...

NHK has learned that the Chinese government instructed travel agencies to hold down Japan-bound tourists to less than 60 percent of previous levels. Sources said Chinese authorities sent the directive ...