NHK World's website also features a map that provides the latest information on the best places to enjoy cherry blossoms as the sakura front moves across the nation. People in Japan are eagerly ...

In 2017, an SH-60J helicopter crashed in the Sea of Japan off Aomori Prefecture ... The MSDF says measures have been taken NHK World's Suda Tadashi, who's been covering the story, explains ...

Shibusawa served Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Japan's last shogun. After the Meiji Restoration, Shibusawa worked for the new government before founding the National Bank, the first in Japan. He was said to ...

Yokota Jiro, left, shows NHK World's John LaDue his Step House kitchen. Yokota says the Big Issue Japan Foundation even supplies the appliances in the home, including a rice cooker. "To be honest ...

So how will the recent changes to monetary policies in Japan and the US affect those economies and the rest of the world? 02:10 That's the focus of our discussion with four distinguished panelists ...

Before joining NHK WORLD-JAPAN, Inoue Yuki anchored and reported for national news programs, including News Watch 9, NEWS 7, and Close-up Gendai+. Among the big stories he's covered: the 2011 ...

Japan's topography is more than 70 percent mountains ... Moriya's long-time friend Mike Kaye is from UK. He told NHK World in an email that he also wants to see bilingual maps.

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Japan's Meteorological Agency issued a mega-earthquake advisory on Aug 8, following a magnitude 7.1 temblor that rocked the western Kyushu region on the same day. What does the advisory mean?

In Major League Baseball, ticket prices for the upcoming World Series are soaring ahead ... as of Tuesday morning Japan time. A seat behind the Dodgers' dugout was listed at around 25,900 dollars.

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party is facing an election defeat after decades in power, according to Japanese media outlets such as NHK.Projections by Japan's ... voters in the world's fourth ...

Japan Broadcasting Corp. (NHK) dismissed a Chinese newscaster who ... provided sex for the Japanese military before and during World War II. Many of them, from the Korean Peninsula, China and ...