Works by Hisako Hibi, Miné Okubo and Miki Hayakawa are featured in “Pictures of Belonging” at the Smithsonian American Art ...

Japan’s Holocaust, published last year, argues that Japanese expansionism between 1927 and 1945 led to atrocities surpassing the death toll caused by Nazi Germany in Europe. The book ...

The government survey on Japan’s death penalty system found that 83.1 percent of Japanese favor it, up by 2.3 percentage points from the last survey five years ago.

The stone fragments had been discovered inside ‘Handprint Cave’ in Belize alongside other artefacts suggestive of ritual use.

Snopes learned more information about the decades-old picture after contacting two children of Natalie Nickerson Paine, the ...

Jizō Bosatsu, known as Kṣitigarbha in Sanskrit, is one of the most beloved bodhisattvas in East Asian Buddhism. Revered as ...

Changing all that, the researchers announce the discovery of two “burin spalls” – or stone flakes – from a site called Actun ...

The death toll from a major explosion in Iran's most important container port of Bandar Abbas rose to at least 70, with over 1,200 injured, state media said on Monday, as firefighters battled a blaze ...

On Sunday, police rearrested the girl on suspicion of murder, Sankei Shimbun reported. Police did not reveal the cause of the baby’s death. According to police, the girl has denied the charge and ...

Iranian authorities were still working on Sunday to control fire and smoke unleashed by Saturday's explosion at a key commercial port in the country’s south that state media said left 40 people ...