Yui Kawamoto made a solid return to competition last weekend after the LPGA's long layoff due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In the tour's first...
"The Red Demon Queller" (1846) by Katsushika Hokusai (ink and color on silk) and Curator Takemura Makoto of The Sumida Hokusai Museum Part 3 of a series...
The buzz over whether a white object observed hovering in the skies over Miyagi and Fukushima Prefectures on the morning of June 17 was a...
Face masks have become a must at exhibitions, as well as temperature checks at entrances, and avoidance of close-contact situations. With such measures, museums that...
As the world battles the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, it seems to have brought out a new kind of assertiveness on the part of...
China has warned Japan that many Chinese fishing boats will enter Japanese territorial waters around the Senkaku Islands (Ishigaki City, Okinawa Prefecture), and that...
The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc with the world’s economy. Schools, supply chains, and transportation networks have all been thrown into disarray. Even sports...
Kim Dong Chul, PhD (66), a U.S. citizen who was arrested by North Korea for alleged espionage and later freed in May 2018, told...
Every year on August 6, people gather at Hiroshima’s Peace Memorial Park in the morning to observe the anniversary of the first atomic bomb attack. This...
Shohei Ohtani's quest to be a two-way player appears finished for the rest of the truncated 2020 MLB season. Los Angeles Angels manager Joe...
The Chinese novelist Yang Yi (real name Liu Qiao) — so far the only non-Japanese national to ever win the prestigious Akutagawa Prize (2008)...
Hiroshima has undergone great changes since it became the first city in the world to be destroyed by an atomic bomb on August 6,...