In the 1830s, at the tail end of Japan’s flourishing Edo Period, two artists set out to document one of the country’s great ...

How does one deal with 6 metres (20 feet) of snow falling on and around their home every year? The residents of Aomori city, who live in the world's snowiest city, show us how.

Japanese actor Toshiro Mifune—best known for starring in films like Seven Samurai, The Hidden Fortress, and Yojimbo for director Akira Kurosawa—has been dead for nearly 30 years. But apparently that ...

Tommy Robinson’s supporters are marching through central London once again in protest against the far-right activist’s imprisonment. Robinson, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, handed himself ...

Stretching 1,000 kilometers from the northern trailhead in Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, to the southern trailhead ... I thought about the video I’d been shown the night before, showing people fleeing ...

Google has said it will restore the name Mount McKinley to North America's highest peak and rename the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America" on its Maps app, complying with executive orders by ...

You can hover over the map below to see more about the top import trade partners for each state. Trump talked about tariff plans before his second presidency started. One of Trump's Truth Social posts ...

The survey covered 516 official full marathon races of the Japan Association of Athletics Federations that were held between April 2011 and March 2019. Approximately 80 pct of a total of some 4.1 ...

showing off directions and street signs in 3D as you look around. If you’re heading on vacation, or you plan to have a day out with friends or family, Apple Maps can help you organize everything.

Government surveys in Japan show few rape victims report the crime to the police, although the number of consultations at sexual violence support centres is increasing. Former soldier Rina Gonoi ...

Italy’s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, is under investigation for repatriating a Libyan warlord despite an active ICC arrest warrant and Serbia’s president, Aleksandar Vučić, pardons 13 people facing ...

Google is capitulating to Orange Mussolini and will show US Google Map users the Gulf of America on maps after Trump signed an executive order rebranding the body of water we all know as the Gulf ...