Ranald MacDonald, the son of a Chinook chief and a Scottish settler, staged a shipwreck near Rishiri Island to gain entry into Japan — then a closed country under isolationist policies. Despite being ...

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Today, we explore the hauntingly beautiful legend of the Swan Maidens. This tale of shapeshifting women, love, captivity, and ...

Thousands of fans in Japan have bid an emotional farewell to four giant pandas. The pandas, a mother and her three daughters, ...

Squids first appeared about 100 million years ago and quickly rose to become dominant predators in the ancient oceans, ...

Some cars are born to make history, others to mark the end of it. In this video, we explore the final models produced by now-defunct automakers from 1949 to 2022. These were the last attempts to stay ...

Utah's Japanese railroad workers spotlighted through work, research of local scholars; Weber State curator works to preserve Japanese history in nearby counties “Because Japan at that time, the ...

While building North America’s railroads, the Japanese rail workers in northern Utah, were also trying to build their own lives in Ogden.“Most people don’t real ...

The remembrance walk marks the 83rd anniversary of the forced removal of Japanese Americans from South Puget Sound during WWII. They are walking to remember the dark time in history.

The official voice of North Korea’s authoritarian regime on Friday denounced the recent appearance of Air Force long-range bombers in Japan as a “vicious change” and a “threat to regional ...

Under a recent plan, the buildings that formed Swan Furniture and Interiors, 7487 Harwood Ave. in Tosa Village, were to be torn down and replaced with a quartet of townhouses. But that's changed ...

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