NHK has learned that the Japanese government is considering a raise in visa issuance fees to the levels of Western countries.

Fake news flooded social media after a major earthquake struck northern Japan on December 8. NHK's senior correspondent ...

A powerful magnitude-7.5 earthquake struck off Japan’s northeastern coast on Monday, triggering evacuation orders and a ...

In the 1980s and 1990s, many foreign workers came to Japan because the economy was strong and there were not enough Japanese ...

The leaves of a heart-shaped ginkgo tree at the Iimori Fureai Hiroba community plaza's parking lot in the city of Isahaya, ...

A new glass-walled giraffe exhibition room was unveiled at Obihiro Zoo in the city of Obihiro, Hokkaido, on December 6. The ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on April 27, 2025. The original video can be viewed here. The world's population may have recently exceeded eight billion, but it's a deceptive ...

Every year EF Education First, a Switzerland-based company that provides language learning services and assistance in countries around the world, prepares its English Proficiency Index (or EF EPI) ...

Japan on Friday executed a man dubbed the "Twitter killer" who murdered and dismembered nine people he met online, in the nation's first enactment of the death penalty since 2022. He had targeted ...

Outdated teaching methods and the rise of language translation apps have made most Japanese less inclined to learn English, ...