Israel's military has announced that the Islamic group Hamas handed over three Israeli hostages to the Red Cross on Sunday.

A six-week ceasefire in the Gaza Strip has begun after a nearly three-hour delay following the agreement between Israel and ...

With the new year upon us, the clear light sparkles on the water's surface. The "Mizukami Pond" on the bank of the ancient ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.