Missing for decades from the Anglophile version of its origin story was another great visual narrative tradition, of the East ...

For centuries, residents in central Japan have chronicled a mysterious natural phenomenon in winter. They see its ...

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President Trump has complained the U.S.-Japan defense partnership is one-sided, but with China throwing its weight around, ...

Japanese telecom giant NTT Communications (NTT Com) has confirmed that hackers accessed the data of almost 18,000 corporate customers during a February cyberattack, affecting an as-yet-unknown ...

A woman in Japan was arrested for allegedly locking her naked partner on their balcony for the night, leading to his death from the cold, police said Friday. The 54-year-old was arrested on ...

The French scholar Pierre-Simon Laplace crisply articulated his expectation that the universe was fully knowable in 1814, asserting that a sufficiently clever “demon” could predict the entire future ...

Japan is fighting a forest fire that has damaged dozens of homes and forced hundreds of residents to evacuate in a northeastern coastal city. The fire has burned about 2,100 hectares (5,190 acres ...

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