Yushima is a cat island only four kilometers around. Hungry cats gather at the port for fresh fish, including a talkative ...

NHK WORLD-JAPAN presents a sumo highlights program for fans around the globe. Today the show features all top-division bouts ...

A special prosecutor investigating the wife of ousted South Korean president Yoon Suk-yeol has launched a raid of the ...

Chinese customs authorities have issued permits to import 449 marine products from Japan including tuna, scallop and crab.

Japan's consumer inflation rose in June, as shoppers paid twice as much for rice compared to a year earlier. The internal ...

A Japanese marine research team looks for plastics on the Pacific Ocean floor, 6,000 meters down. Plus, monitoring neutrinos ...

We meet English Laila Cassim who supports creative collaborations between Tokyo design students and people with disabilities, ...

During Syria's 13-year civil war, more than 100,000 people are thought to have disappeared. In the aftermath of conflict, ...

Japan's Emperor Emeritus Akihito has been discharged from a hospital in Tokyo after being admitted to the facility on Monday ...

This year's onion harvest is underway in the Kitami region of Hokkaido. Japan's northernmost prefecture is the home of the ...

Young people from Japan and South Korea are taking a strong interest in each other's countries, even as political changes can ...

A central Japan high court has acquitted a man convicted of murdering a teenage girl in 1986. Maekawa Shoshi completed his ...