The Japanese government is considering not attending the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons as an observer.

People in Hiroshima expressed disappointment that the Japanese government is considering not attending an upcoming ...

The envoy also said Japan is ready to sign an agreement with Bangladesh to provide equipment on air pollution monitoring ...

Giving explicit advance signals, in addition to making the Bank of Japan feel boxed in, could breach Japanese law stipulating ...

NHK has learned that Japan's government and ruling coalition are considering sending Diet members to a UN nuclear weapons ban treaty conference without observer status.

Japanese high school students from the atomic-bombed cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima will be sent as Peace Messengers to a ...

The family of Megumi Yokota, who was 13 when she was abducted by North Korean agents in 1977, met the US president previously in Tokyo.

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres ratcheted up his warning about climate change and said the world’s thirst for fossil ...

President Trump has promised so much on his first few days back at his desk in the White House, one must wonder how much he ...

A leader of a group of North Korean abductee families called on the government to deepen the bond between their leaders.

North Korea defended its right to maintain a nuclear weapons program at a United Nations disarmament conference held shortly ...