In 2024, for the first time, an Asian woman won the Nobel Prize for Literature. She is Han Kang, South Korean, born in 1970, ...

This weekend it’s the turn of Scotland’s acclaimed Vanishing Point company to put the work of the now 76-year-old Japanese author on the ...

The movie, which premieres on Apple TV+ on Friday, Feb. 14, is a hybrid romance-horror starring Miles Teller (“Top Gun: Maverick”), Anya Taylor-Joy (“The Menu”) and Sigourney Weaver (everything good) ...

Junko Yokota is legally blind in one eye. At first, her parents thought she was just a clumsy child who occasionally bumped ...

A Lao-American man was apprehended for allegedly stealing an iPhone 16 from a Japanese tourist at Suvarnabhumi Airport.

Phuket Immigration officers detained a 37 year old Nigerian man for possessing cocaine with the intention to sell.

Playwright Keiko Green's "Empty Ride" follows the story of a woman who returns home to a small town in Japan, after the 2011 ...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an Executive Order that gave the U.S. army authority to compel 120,000 Japanese ...

Ornamental trees and shrubs adorn the grounds of the Ekō House of Japanese Culture in Düsseldorf's Niederkassel district.

Every year on February 22, Japan celebrates National Cat Day, known as “Neko no Hi”. This special day is dedicated to ...

GENEVA -- More than six million people could die from HIV and AIDS in the next four years if U.S. President Donald Trump's ...

Reading, writes Edwina Preston, is a way of journeying on the wings of others without moving from the armchair (or bed). Here ...