South Korea on Tuesday voiced "deep disappointment and regret" after Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba sent an offering ...

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In a purely human way, I feel sorry for the Pope. Like everyone who died, except the Nazis, especially the Ukrainians. They ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba gave a ritual masakaki tree offering to Yasukuni Shrine at the start of the war-related Tokyo ...

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The Expo 2025 site design producer called the Grand Ring, the world's largest wooden architectural structure, "a symbol of our times" that represents the venue's design philosophy of "unity in ...

As the World’s Fair opens in Osaka, Japan, the event’s architect tells CNN that Expo 2025 is about unity — and the possibilities of timber.

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