Tokyo police have arrested a female student on suspicion of attacking eight people with a hammer on a university campus.

Japan Airlines has unveiled an aircraft with a special "shark skin" surface treatment meant to help the plane cut carbon ...

The Financial Times says Chinese President Xi Jinping will send a high-level envoy to Donald Trump's presidential ...

Sources have told NHK that the trial for a man charged with killing a Japanese student last year will open on January 24.

NHK has learned that five Japanese ministries failed to adequately secure some domain names previously used for their ...

A minister of Syria's interim government has appealed for assistance and investment from the international community, ...

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says an international alliance including the United States and European countries has approved an additional military package worth 2 billion dollars to support ...

The UN's refugee agency says last year saw a spike in the number of Rohingya Muslims attempting to flee Myanmar and refugee camps in Bangladesh by boat. It's calling on the neighboring countries ...

Outgoing US Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel has said that he believes the US-Japan alliance was improved during his time in office.

Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Hayashi Yoshimasa has pledged to maximize efforts to return Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea as soon as possible.

Fukuoka Airport in southwest Japan is set to open a new runway in March. The expansion is aimed at easing congestion at Japan's third busiest airport, although officials caution that the gains in ...

Japanese retail giant Seven & i Holdings says its net profit plunged in the nine months through November of last year. The ...