Pac-Man helped launch Japanese video games onto the global stage, blazing a trail for other icons like Mario and Pokémon. As ...

Japanese authorities say they have captured a Chinese fishing boat and its captain. The ship, which was in Japan's exclusive economic zone off the southwestern prefecture of Nagasaki, reportedly ...

A population imbalance has occurred in China where men outnumber women, and men in farming villages face difficulties when ...

Japanese police say the amount of damage nationwide from cases of "special fraud" hit a record high last year at 141.4 ...

US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that instructs the Department of Defense to purchase coal-based ...

The Tokyo District Court has handed down a suspended prison term to a former daycare center director for causing the death of ...

Japanese beverage maker Asahi says deliveries of its products have returned to normal after the disruptions caused by last ...

Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 stock index topped the 58,000 mark on Thursday to set another record for intraday trading.

Japan has found a potentially huge source of rare earth minerals ? but it's around 6,000 meters underwater. NHK World's Kagawa Nao explains the challenges of deep-sea mining.

An advisory panel to Japan's justice minister has adopted a set of proposals for revising Japan's retrial system and for more ...

Tent camps have been set up at around 200 locations in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv to provide residents with warmth and other ...

The Japanese Olympic Committee says it has requested the removal of more than 900 abusive social media posts targeting ...