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 ...

I wanted to make a point of placing the monsters within the daily life of Tokyo,” says the photographer Tess Ayano, who spent ...

Hiragana and Katakana are phonetic symbols, each representing one syllable ... To Apps for learning Japanese letters, please click here.

It is as if we insisted on calling kanji “Japanese symbols” or hieroglyphics “Egyptian letters” — a disservice to their cultural and historical significance. This is also a question of identity. The ...

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Europe’s Stoxx 600 index dropped as traders returned from the Easter break. Novo Nordisk A/S slumped almost 10% after a pill ...

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Pilots and air traffic controllers saying "tree," "fife," and "niner" instead of three, five, and nine. What is that about?

There was a wonderful event at Centennial Square this past weekend. The local Filipino community, along with members of the ...

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Pope Francis passed away at 7:35 a.m. local time on Easter Monday, April 21, at his residence in the Vatican’s Casa Santa ...

Faktor was on a mission on April 18, 1942, when 16 U.S. bombers, led by Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle, took off from the USS Hornet and air-raided Japan in retaliation for the attack on Pearl ...