The yield on the 10-year US Treasury bond on Thursday briefly hit 5.34 percent, the highest since 2002. Investors are selling ...

The new president of electric parts maker Nidec has vowed to rebuild the company after a series of accounting and product ...

NHK has learned that the government has wrapped up draft requirements for Japan's potential "secondary capital." The ...

A group of researchers monitoring glaciers in Switzerland has warned that ice loss has accelerated at an alarming rate over the past five years.

Multiple NATO sources say Russia has sent an informal letter to NATO, in which Moscow warned it is ready to use nuclear ...

Three banks in northeastern Japan are moving toward integration talks. The discussions will involve Aomori Michinoku Bank, ...

The operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says it has begun a survey of the inside the plant's No,2 reactor, using a robot arm. The survey is in preparation for a test removal ...

Former Japanese Defense Minister Onodera Itsunori has met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv. They ...

China has put in place a revised national defense mobilization law that allows civilian resources to be used for military ...

Japan's agriculture ministry says less than 70 percent of last year's rice harvest has been sold to wholesalers. That's a record low and indicates an oversupplied market.

Russian forces have launched massive strikes against energy facilities in Kyiv. A US think tank released an analysis on ...

Pakistan says it has launched airstrikes on camps and hideouts of extremist groups in neighboring Afghanistan, killing 22 ...