South Korea's government says Prime Minister Han Duck-soo spoke with US President Joe Biden by phone on Sunday.

US President-elect Donald Trump has tapped his aide Richard Grenell to be presidential envoy for special missions. In a social media post on Saturday, Trump said Grenell "will work in some of the ...

NHK World's Kim Chan-ju has been following the impeachment proceedings from outside South Korea's National Assembly. She ...

South Korea's National Assembly has passed a motion to impeach President Yoon Suk-yeol. This was the second vote after the ...

Four Japanese high school students working as "peace ambassadors" for the abolition of nuclear weapons have pledged to ...

New French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou has called on both leftist and rightist forces to work together to overcome ...

Winter warmer: Wakayama's hot-spring river bath The 'Sennin-buro,' an open-air bath formed by the damming of a river, has opened for the season at Kawayu Onsen, a hot spring in Wakayama Prefecture.

Japan's defense minister has briefed the mayor of Nago City in Okinawa Prefecture on the start of the relocation of US Marines based in the prefecture to Guam as part of the government's effort to ...

South Korea's National Assembly has voted to impeach President Yoon Suk-yeol. NHK WORLD's Aoki Yoshiyuki explains why some ruling party members came around and what comes next.

A repatriated Japanese citizen abducted by North Korea has collected signatures calling for the early return of the other victims.

Families of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea have called for the rescue of all victims as soon as possible at a symposium held by the Japanese government in Tokyo.

An international group of researchers have found that stars similar to the Sun produce a gigantic outburst of electromagnetic ...