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

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

A US federal court has indicted 14 North Korean nationals for an elaborate scheme involving IT workers to earn money ...

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.

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

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

A US federal appeals court has rejected an emergency bid by TikTok to block a law that could ban its popular video-sharing ...

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

Moldova, a neighbor of Ukraine, has decided to declare a national state of emergency for 60 days over fears that natural gas ...

A court in Japan's southern prefecture of Okinawa has sentenced a US Air Force member to five years in prison for sexually ...

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.