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

Floods in Thailand continue to impact millions of people across the country, and authorities are warning there's more heavy rain on the way.

Investigators in Timor-Leste have raided a building in the capital Dili that they say was being used to run telecom scams. They detained 16 people, including seven Japanese nationals. The bust is the ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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.