Newly elected Fukui Gov. Takato Ishida caused a stir with a video on social media during campaigning in which he said Japan ...

Lying between China's northeastern Taiwan island and Japan's southwestern Kyushu are the Ryukyu Islands, an arc-shaped archipelago in the western Pacific. Once known as the "Bridge of Ten Thousand ...

Newly elected Fukui Gov Takato Ishida caused a stir with a video on social media during campaigning in which he said Japan is "ethnically homogeneous," leading him to clarify the intent of his ...

An eccentric and artist, Arnold Henry Savage Landor won his way into the late 19th-century courts of east Asia by painting royal portraits. He traveled through India with two Persian cats, surveyed in ...

A Scottish university has completed what is believed to be the first ever international repatriation of ancestral remains to mainland United States.

The northernmost island of the country captivates with its imposing nature, a unique culinary culture, and delightful hot ...

Discover the 10 most anticipated anime of 2026, including Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3, One Piece Elbaph Arc, and Frieren Season 2.

The Dutch East India Company once wiped out nearly an entire island population over nutmeg. And somehow, none of this made it into your history textbook. Funny how that works, right? The stuff that ...

THE University of Edinburgh has returned the skulls of native American people used for racist phrenology studies in the late 19th century.

Global media’s obsession with sensationalising Japan into its eccentric, often stereotyped image is reductive. The ...