The head of the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs has expressed delight at Nihon Hidankyo, an organization ...

In Major League Baseball, the Los Angeles Dodgers have defeated the San Diego Padres 2-0 in Game 5 of the National League ...

Russia has lodged a protest against a large-scale joint exercise the Japan Self-Defense Forces and the US military are due to ...

The chair of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee says he wants to send a message to all political leaders in the world that ...

As tensions ratchet up across the region, we use satellite mapping to assess Israel's attacks on Gaza and look at what to ...

It's been a month since tests to retrieval nuclear fuel debris began at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant. But repeated issues have suspended the tests, and thrown the future of the ...

A Japanese group representing atomic bomb survivors wins this year's Nobel Peace Prize. As NHK WORLD's Ueno Yamato explains, it comes at a critical moment for those campaigning against nuclear weapons ...

As Israel potentially moves closer to carrying out a retaliatory response to Iran's attack on its soil last week, Iran's ...

October 11 NEWSROOM TOKYO Bangkok Live Lineup 1. US, China spar over South China Sea at East Asia Summit 2. ASEAN talks focus ...

Officials with North Korea's foreign ministry accuse South Korea of violating their country's airspace. They say drones have ...

A two-day festival in Akitakata, Hiroshima Prefecture, gives high school students from across Japan a chance to display their ...

The main hall of Shuri Castle in Okinawa, southern Japan, is being rebuilt after it was destroyed by fire in 2019.