Former US Ambassador to Japan Michael Armacost has died at the age of 87. He was known as "Mr. Gaiatsu," or "Mr. Foreign Pressure," for pushing Japan to dispatch its Self-Defense Forces during the ...

Rain appears to have halted the spread of Japan's worst wildfire in more than half a century, officials said Thursday, as ...

Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen also has deep concerns. She spoke to NHK on Tuesday. She said: "We don't have anything against for the US and Russia sitting down. But of course ...

A South African delegate who co-chaired the talks told NHK that countries have to act hand-in-hand because there are no borders when it comes to pandemics.

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Honda Motor and Nissan Motor have decided to terminate merger talks that would have created the world's third-biggest automaker group. The companies say they are instead seeking to prioritize "the ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Howard Bryant of Meadowlark Media about the Super Bowl matchup between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles, as well as the trade deadline in the NBA. Scott ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks to husband-and-wife duo Eric Lindberg and Doni Zasloff from the band, Nefesh Mountain, about their latest album, "Beacons." This news story is funded in large part by ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Peter McPherson, a former administrator of the US Agency for International Development, about the Trump administration's attempts to dismantle the humanitarian agency. Scott ...

On Sunday Ecuador holds the first round of a Presidential election dominated by the issues of economic insecurity and rising drug gang violence. Carrie Kahn is NPR's International Correspondent based ...

NPR's Juana Summers talks with former Philadelphia Eagles cornerback Sheldon Brown about what advice he has for the players heading to the Super Bowl on Sunday. Juana Summers is a political ...

Of the 1,991 stores nationwide (as of the end of last December), about 30% are affected, including those in airports and Tokyo's 23 wards, the company said in a statement on its website. The current ...