Pope Francis died Monday at the age of 88. As tributes pour in from around the world, the Vatican faces a transition.

Andrew Champagne lists his top 20 contenders for the 2025 Kentucky Derby, and the names from the past they conjure ...

(Photo courtesy of Kat Burk) Japanese War Brides, a traveling Smithsonian exhibition, explores the lives of the Japanese women who immigrated to America as wives of U.S. military servicemembers ...

This photo taken on April 21, 2025, at the war-linked Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo shows the "masakaki" ritual offering sent by Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba for its spring festival.

Their sting is rarely deadly to humans—but it can be extremely painful. Recently, they’ve been showing up in local ...

The Yasukuni Shrine honors 14 convicted Class-A Japanese war criminals from World War II, including Hideki Tojo. It has long been a source of diplomatic friction for Japan and its neighbors.

The greatest filmmaker of postwar Japan found a new way to show life onscreen.

China has executed a man who was sentenced to death for a fatal knife attack on a Japanese school bus last year in the city of Suzhou in eastern China. The Chinese man in his 50s attacked the ...

Japan's Minister for Foreign Affairs, Takeshi Iwaya, called for a diplomatic approach to the evolving US trade policy, warning that 'tariffs are changing like a daily menu' and creating deep ...

China has reportedly executed a man convicted of killing a Chinese woman and injuring two Japanese nationals in a knife attack at a school bus stop near Shanghai last year. Zhou Jiasheng, a ...

Yasukuni honors Japan's wartime leaders, convicted as war criminals by a post-World War II international tribunal, along with millions of war dead. Ishiba and his cabinet ministers did not visit the ...

And while most of us are stuck daydreaming about this sweet, responsibility-free life, one man in Tokyo is actually living it. Shoji Morimoto, a middle-aged Japanese guy living in Tokyo ...