Batter is a handy basic recipe to know how to make, because it can be transformed into all sorts of other things - like ...

For our “Women’s Voices” commentary series, Maureen Marx examines the differences in communication styles between Americans ...

Japan is a country that fascinates many travelers with its unique culture, history, and traditions. One of the most striking ...

Only a few days later, Hegseth was nominated by Donald Trump to serve as defense secretary, and he has since tried to ...

Many members of the international community consider whale-hunting a barbaric practice that should have been banned decades ago.  But some countries have ...

Ghost Stories joins classics like One Piece and Naruto, with its hilarious English dub transforming it into a cult favorite ...

The Chinese character for "future" was selected as the CJK Spirit Word of the Year 2025 ... and determination of the people of China, ­Japan, and South Korea to build closer ties in the future.

Japan is staring down a demographic cliff. The population has shrunk for 15 straight years, with births hitting a record low of 730,000 last year and deaths a record high of 1.58 million.

It’s the language that gave us the world’s first novel, birthed commonplace words from tycoon to emoji and produced three winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Why, then, is the Japanese ...

As 2024 nears its end and we look back on the year in entertainment, it was clearly one when Japan-related works loomed large on the global market. It is a diverse group of works. Some were made ...

The Miyawaki Forest Technique, invented by Japanese botanist and plant ecology expert Professor Akira Miyawaki in the 1970s, is the inspiration for micro-forests worldwide. These diverse ...