The Israeli Prime Minister's Office says a ceasefire will not begin in the Gaza Strip until the Islamic group Hamas provides ...

NHK World's Kim Chan-ju explains the mood in South Korea after the president's arrest as well as what will be the focus from ...

The Russian government has announced it is ending the memorandums it signed with Japan on the operation of Japan Centers. The ...

Japan's Foreign Minister Iwaya Takeshi has left for the United States to attend Donald Trump's presidential inaugural ...

US President-elect Donald Trump says he will sign a "record-setting" number of executive actions after taking his oath of ...

US President-elect Donald Trump says he would "most likely" give the popular social media app TikTok a 90-day reprieve from a ...

The US Treasury Department says it will take "extraordinary measures" from January 21, so that government debt will not ...

South Korean media say investigators arrested President Yoon Suk-yeol early Sunday morning over his short-lived imposition of ...

People opposing the policies of US President-elect Donald Trump gathered in Washington to stage a large-scale protest march ...

Atomic bomb survivors and others have gathered in southwestern Japan's Nagasaki City and urged the government to take part in the United Nations treaty banning nuclear weapons.

The China-based owner of the popular social media app TikTok has informed its users in the United States that it is temporarily suspending its service in the country as a law banning it took effect on ...

Fallout continues from a scandal involving a woman and popular TV personality Nakai Masahiro, who is best known as a former member of the disbanded pop idol group, SMAP.