I wonder how many poems have now been dedicated to Akiko Baba, a poetry critic in The Asahi Shimbun’s Asahi Kadan tanka ...

NAGASAKI—About a thousand people attended a memorial Mass at the Urakami Cathedral here on April 27 for Pope Francis, who had ...

A narrow, attic-like space lies directly below the No. 5 reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, showing the ...

Mao Saigo was shaking with nervousness before her birdie putt on the first hole of a five-way playoff Sunday in the Chevron ...

Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of Kim Jong Un, also appeared in the TV footage. The launch, which took place on Friday at ...

A new tour of the famed Akiyoshido cave system here, one of the largest limestone networks in Japan, offers visitors the ...

The South Korean government’s fact-finding commission suspended its groundbreaking investigation into the extensive fraud and ...

Fans of the four remaining giant pandas at Adventure World here and local businesses are bracing for their return to China at ...

Around 170,000 tons of sesame were consumed in Japan in 2023, but only about 80 tons were produced domestically for a ...

The government on April 23 started 2025 operations of both its ordinary and special heatstroke alert systems to warn the ...

Pyrotechnic artworks from the Omagari fireworks festival here will illuminate the sky over the 2025 Osaka Kansai Expo venue ...

OSAKA—About 4,000 people were stranded at Yumeshima Station, the closest train stop to the Osaka Kansai Expo, on April 22 ...