The NHK opinion poll in August shows the approval rate for Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru's Cabinet is 38 percent.

On the Tokyo Stock Exchange, the benchmark Nikkei 225 index ended Tuesday at an all-time high of 42,718 points as buying ...

The death toll from an explosion at a US Steel plant in Pennsylvania on Monday has risen to two after one person who had been ...

August 12 marks the 40th anniversary of a Japan Airlines jumbo jet crash that claimed over 500 lives, making it the world's ...

Western media say chip giants Nvidia and AMD have agreed to pay the US government 15 percent of their revenues from chip ...

South Korea's presidential office says President Lee Jae-myung will meet US President Donald Trump at the White House on ...

North Korean media say the country's military has conducted an artillery firing drill. This comes ahead of the start of ...

The agriculture ministers of Japan, China and South Korea have agreed to strengthen cooperation to prevent the spread of ...

Heavy rain emergency warnings were issued across Kumamoto Prefecture in southwestern Japan at one point on Monday, as ...

Qatar-based broadcaster Al Jazeera has reported that an Israeli attack on the Palestinian area of Gaza has killed seven ...

At least four people have been reported missing as torrential rain in Japan's southwestern Kyushu region caused landslides ...

How can we keep the voices of Hibakushas alive? 80 years after the bombing, are hopes for a nuclear weapons-free world fading ...