Japan plans to build an underground bomb shelter on its westernmost island that’s capable of housing up to 200 people.

China has reopened its market to seafood from Japan after a nearly two-year ban over the discharge of slightly radioactive ...

Japanese researchers turned to “experimental archaeology” to study how ancient humans navigated powerful ocean currents and ...

Japan faces overtourism challenges with 36 million visitors in 2024, raising concerns about two-tier pricing and the ...

One of Japan’s best-known contemporary artists, now in her 90s, Kusama’s work is recognisable by her signature polkadot motifs, with the Naoshima island pumpkins no exception.

On the island of Naoshima, in the Seto Inland Sea – where the Sea of Japan meets the Pacific – art devotees from all over the world venture on 21st-century pilgrimages. Right now, the island is flush ...

The Government of Japan has extended a grant of 300 million Japanese Yen (approximately LKR 565 million) to Sri Lanka to enhance waste management infrastructure facilities under the ‘Clean Sri Lanka’ ...

The Cabinet of Ministers has approved the proposal presented by the president, in his capacity as the Minister of Finance, Planning, and Economic Development, to obtain the grant of 300 million Yen ...

The Japanese never compensated the families for the deaths of prisoners or for the loss of land and damage to Attuan culture and language. Helena Pagano’s great-grandfather was the last Alaska ...

A U.S. squad armed with guns and hand grenades closes in on Japanese holdouts entrenched in dugouts during World War II on Attu Island, Alaska, in June 1943. (U.S. Army via AP, File) ...

Attu Island is the most westerly of Alaska’s Aleutian chain. It was one of the few U.S. territories, including Guam, the Philippines and the nearby island of Kiska, to be captured during the war.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Helena Pagano’s great-grandfather was the last Alaska Native chief of a remote island in the Bering Sea, closer to Russia than North America. He died starving as a pr… ...