The Japanese box office sensation "Kokuho" has been nominated for the Best Makeup and Hairstyling category in this year's Oscars.

Residents of Greenland are voicing opposition after US President Donald Trump once again expressed his desire to acquire the ...

The Japanese government has compiled a set of basic policies on foreign nationals, including stricter requirements for obtaining Japanese nationality and measures to counter overtourism.

An official of a town in Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan, has taken footage of a bear that wandered into a storage shed.

A Japanese court has sentenced Yamagami Tetsuya to life in prison for fatally shooting former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo. Get ...

NHK WORLD's Yamasawa Rina reports from Thailand on its upcoming general election with an overview on the divided political ...

A Japanese court sentenced a man who admitted assassinating former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to life imprisonment, ...

On this episode, we meet two foreigners living in Fukui - Jessie Shakuhokai from Switzerland who is the abbess of a Buddhist ...

Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, earlier pleaded guilty to killing Abe in July 2022 during his election campaign speech in the western ...

The man who killed Japan’s ex-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with a homemade gun was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday, public broadcaster NHK reported.

A Japanese court on Wednesday sentenced a 45-year-old man to life imprisonment for fatally shooting former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, ...