Japanese premier unfazed at request by atomic bomb survivors that Japan should participate in Meeting of States Parties to Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons - Anadolu Ajansı

Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui on Friday urged Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba to decide on Japan's participation as an observer at a me

Pyongyang's first test-fire of 2025 came as Blinken, America's top diplomat, met with South Korea's acting President Choi Sang-mok. Choi assumed the interim role after the South Korean Parliament voted to impeach a second president in two weeks.

The mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki want the Japanese government to attend an upcoming meeting about the United Nations treaty banning nuclear weapons as an observer.

Nihon Hidankyo, the Japanese atomic bomb survivors' group that won last year's Nobel Peace Prize, urged the government on Wednesday t

North Korea claimed to have carried out a successful test-firing of a new hypersonic intermediate range ballistic missile (IRBM) on Monday, with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who observed the firing from a video feed,

Japan smashes annual record with more than 36 million tourists in 2024 - Japan saw more than 36.8 million visitors in 2014, a record since 2019

A growing number of countries are confronting the dual challenges of population decline and aging, as younger generations opt to have fewer children and advances in healthcare extend life expectancy.

North Korea condemned on Friday joint military drills between South Korea, Japan and the United States held this week, threatening to respond by exercising its right to self-defense "more intensively".

Citing national security concerns, Biden put a stop to the $14.9 billion sale earlier this month, blocking Nippon Steel's takeover of US Steel and irking one of Washington's closest allies.

The global economy, despite being battered by inflationary pressures and geopolitical conflicts in recent years, is forecast to grow at a subdued rate of 2.8% in 2025, according to the United Nations.

The United Nations says the world economy resisted battering by conflicts and inflation last year and is expected to grow a subdued 2.8% in 2025. The U.N. projected last January that global economic growth would be 2.