Reading books may not be as popular an activity in South Korea as it was before, but independent bookstores have become ...

Vietnam's top leader Nguyen Phu Trong has died at the age of 80. The country's state-run media have reported the Communist ...

Vietnam has filed a claim with the United Nations to extend its continental shelf in the South China Sea. This comes a month ...

The Japanese unit of US cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike has reported glitches on computers using its software. The firm's ...

Prime Minister Kishida Fumio says Japan needs new measures to promote tourism in regions outside major cities and other ...

Bangladesh has been rocked by mass student protests against government job quotas. Local media say clashes between the ...

An apparent computer system outage is disrupting operations at airports, medical facilities and media outlets around the ...

Fujisaki Ichiro, a former Japanese ambassador to the US, tells NHK World how he thinks the attempted assassination on former ...

Major League Baseball says the 2025 regular season will start in Tokyo with games between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the ...

Each summer in the town of Kiyosato in Hokkaido Prefecture, the cherry salmon attempt to scale a waterfall as they look to ...

Baikamo, a type of aquatic plant grown in Japan, which grows in a cold and clear stream, is in full bloom in a park in ...

Japan's Air Self-Defense Force has launched joint drills with the air forces of Germany, Spain and France. It is the first ...