Periods including “fish emerge from the ice” in mid-February and “rainbows hide” in late November offer a framework for ...

“It looks like it will die,” Nishibori said of the cherry tree, “but it’s not going to die. The next spring, there will be ...

This underrated city was once the capital of Japan in the Middle Ages and is now a beautiful, tourist-friendly hub with ...

Croix du Nord puts his undefeated record on the line in the Satsuki Sho (Japanese Two Thousand Guineas, G1) April 20, the ...

Japan's top 2-year-old filly of 2024, Arma Veloce, kicks off her 3-year-old season in the Oka Sho (Japanese One Thousand ...

Almost three years after a pee-gate or urination scandal brought focus ... red faced again as a passenger reportedly urinated on a Japanese national on board flight AI2336 en route from Delhi ...

This goes double for the HFA’s ongoing “Yugoslav Junction” series, which returns on Sunday with a fascinating new documentary. Matevž Jerman and Jurij Meden’s “Alpe-Adria Underground!” (2024) delves ...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's national carrier has posted an annual profit for the first time in more than two decades ahead of a second attempt by the government to sell the airline, the country's ...

East Japan Railway says it is going to test facial-recognition ticket gates for Joetsu Shinkansen trains. The testing will take place at Niigata and Nagaoka stations by volunteers holding train ...

The researchers show him an 1888 obituary for her and a 1839 ad for her sale. Gates comments that he’s seen a thousand bill of sales like it, but this hit differently. At the end, he looks again at a ...

The Yomiuri Shimbun 15:57 JST, April 7, 2025 (updated at 16:10 JST, April 7) The Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) system was resumed Monday afternoon after system failure impacted a total of 106 toll ...

Kaso-Machi is both a total freakshow bizarro sideways world and a patient and thoughtful representation of a dying town somewhere in rural Japan ... re presented with a thousand layered systems ...