Many of us know that Japan took its Buddhism, its urban design, its flower-viewing rites and several of its art forms from China, often by way of Korea. You feel that influence today everywhere from ...

“It looks like it will die,” Nishibori said of the cherry tree, “but it’s not going to die. The next spring, there will be ...

These outstanding Osaka museums let you revisit the city’s rich history, taste fine whisky and explore world culture ...

Swedish archaeologists are studying a rare discovery from a 16th-century shipwreck near Stockholm, hoping it will shed light ...

The two Japanese naval ships docked at Cambodia’s Ream Naval Base on Saturday. The two minesweepers are part of the Japanese Maritime Self Defence Force. Their visit marks the first foreign navy ...

Japan has sent two naval ships to a Cambodian naval base which was recently upgraded using Chinese funds, heightening US concerns that it will be used as an outpost for China’s navy in the Gulf ...

The US justice system returned the so-called “Hernandarias Manuscript,” a 16th-century document penned in 1598 by Hernando Arias de Saavedra, the first Creole governor in the Americas.

Japan has sent two naval ships to a Cambodian naval base which was recently upgraded using Chinese funds, heightening US concerns that it will be used as an outpost for China’s navy in the Gulf of ...

The Kangei Maru, a commercial whaling ship, leaves Shimonoseki port in western Japan on April 21, 2025. (Kyodo) SHIMONOSEKI, Yamaguchi (Kyodo) -- A commercial whaling ship left a western Japanese ...

The 16th-century Spanish Renaissance painter Luis de Morales had an eye for the dramatic. In one lamentation scene, Jesus slumps against his mother’s arm, his limp corpse gray and speckled with ...

Japanese ship spotters had posted pics of Asuka sporting the railgun while docked at Yokosuka Naval Base on April 9 and left the base on April 10 to conduct trials. ATLA had announced in October ...