In economic powerhouse India, the huge problem of acid attacks against women persists. Survivors are showing their faces and ...

The widow of former Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo has for the first time attended a hearing of the trial of the man ...

NHK spoke with Kanni Wignaraja, director of the Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific at the United Nations Development ...

South Korean President Lee Jae-myung has stressed his intention to promote ties with Japan. He also expressed readiness to ...

The Japanese government is weighing legal changes that would let married couples use their original surnames in a wider range ...

In Indonesia, days of torrential rain have triggered deadly floods and mudslides, killing at least 770 people and leaving ...

Major Japanese companies have filed lawsuits over US President Donald Trump's tariffs. The firms are demanding refunds if the ...

Japanese scientist Kitagawa Susumu, one of the winners of this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry, has left for Sweden to attend ...

The Wall Street Journal has reported that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has declared a "code red" to urge employees to improve its ...

Japan's overseas aid agency has sent a medical team to Sri Lanka, one of the countries in South and Southeast Asia worst ...

Tourists in the western Japanese city of Nara have enjoyed a musical attraction featuring the city's beloved wild deer.

Pakistan authorities say the country has about 600,000 unlicensed doctors. Sindh province officials are fighting to shut them ...