In Nagasaki prefecture, on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu, J-Power, the operator of the aging Matsushima coal-fired ...

China’s successful rebranding of the giant panda has created an unexpected challenge for Beijing, as it aims to balance its use of the animals for soft power abroad against the demands of an adoring ...

South Korea: In a video by World Friends, a South Korean prison meal consists of rice with beans, along with assorted fresh ...

The skull fragments, teeth, jaws and other remains unearthed at different sites across the country are clearly remnants of archaic hominins — the formal name for species in the human lineage ...

Mapmakers and teachers are re-thinking what to call the gulf of water between Mexico, the United States and Cuba after ...

Disney movies have a way of making us all long for a fictional, enchanted kingdom. The settings are always so magical an ...

The 20,000-year-old fossilized bones of "Ushikawa Man," thought to be some of Japan's most ancient human fossils, are not what scientists believed they were, new research finds. Instead ...

"Fists and Prayers," directed by Kasai and released in October 2024 in Japan, also explores how the 88-year-old Hakamada created a spiritual world to comfort himself from the prospect of being ...

Japan's Divorce Temple is a sanctuary for those ... with the Buddhist belief in impermanence and the transient nature of human connections. Couples or individuals who visit the temple often ...

This combustion lies outside the old boundaries: It can burn anytime ... It’s been enough of a stretch to fully include human fire practices within traditional ecology. Yet humans – the keystone ...

Among Japan's challenges as a super-aging society ... "I believe that dementia should be approached from the perspective of human rights rather than the matter of providing care," Wada observes.

Fossilized bones discovered decades ago and hailed at the time as the oldest human ... Japan turn out to be from a prehistoric bear, a new analysis shows. Not only that, the items are not nearly ...