By Damian Flanagan One of the memorable highlights for me last year was that moment in the New Zealand parliament when a Maori MP suddenly transformed ...

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

The former imperial capital is both the symbol of Japan's temples and geishas and of globalized overtourism. And yet, blocks ...

Kavitha Rao revives the forgotten legacy of two extraordinary freedom fighters, M.N. Roy and Virendranath Chattopadhyay, in ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Key events in the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis and died on Monday: Dec. 17, ...

TOKYO -- Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD is leveraging its cheap, in-house manufactured batteries to break into Japan's market for kei minicars, a field where overseas players have seen little ...

Tokyo, April 24 (Jiji Press)--Japan's House of Representatives, the lower chamber of parliament, passed a bill on Thursday to promote the development of artificial intelligence technology and take ...

The White House is closing in on general agreements with Japan and India to stave off massive U.S. tariffs, but they are likely to leave many of the thorny details to be hashed out at a later date.

Gunmen have killed at least 20 people in an attack in a gold mining village in Nigeria's northwestern Zamfara state, residents and Amnesty International said.