On your next visit to Japan, skip Tokyo and Kyoto in favor of the less touristy region of Hokuriku, where ancient craft and ...

Chinese and regional media seize on Henry Kissinger’s 2023 warning as debate grows over whether Japan, under PM Sanae Takaichi, might one day weaponize its civilian plutonium and advanced ...

A suicide note left by Japan’s under-the-table negotiator on the 1972 Okinawa reversion is being exhibited at the Okinawa Prefectural Archives, telling visitors the envoy’s grief over brokering a ...

Trapped by staunch isolationism at home, President Roosevelt and his inner circle wrestled with a grave dilemma in late November 1941: how to enter the war against fascism. Historical records and the ...

The secret torture lab operated in near total secrecy, shielded by war and bureaucracy. This breakdown explains how it functioned, who authorized it, and why accountability never came. Victims were ...

Of all the abductions, this one is different.

No doubt you’ve seen your share of hollies this month — in wreaths and boughs or perhaps on holiday cards and catalog covers. But are they growing in your garden? There are hundreds of holly species ...

Police in Otsu City, Shiga Prefecture, have rearrested a 50-year-old unemployed man on suspicion of fraudulently obtaining his deceased mother’s pension for three years. Kazuya Hashino was arrested on ...

When China’s rulers ordered tens of thousands of soldiers to crush pro-democracy demonstrations in Beijing in 1989, Gen. Xu Qinxian was the commander who famously said no. He refused to lead his ...

The Secret Garden, a musical adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic children's novel, takes you on a journey of healing and self-discovery. The music and lyrics were composed by Lucy Simon, ...