The barques were loaded. Food, tools and supplies to endure several years beyond the frontiers of the known world. Five thousand crew and six thousand children – reputedly all virgins, the purest ...

The sacred camphor tree at Kinomiya Shrine in Atami is no ordinary timber. Estimated to be more than 2,000 years old, it is one of Japan’s largest and oldest camphor trees — a towering guardian of ...

These 17th century monks chose to slowly mummify themselves over a decade to achieve enlightenment...all so they could help ...

Five paddlers completed a journey from Taiwan to Yonaguni Island, across some of the world's fastest oceanic currents, ...

There is an immense moral and political gap between Israel’s blatant unhinged incitement on the life of the symbolic figurehead of the Islamic Republic of Iran (which the Americans eventually ...

The developers of Shadow of the Road explain how they crafted a steampunk Japan, with tactical combat and impactful moral ...

An iron knife and pieces of armor have been confirmed to be from the keyhole-shaped grave mound, the team said.

A gold-plated iron knife and armor fragments, believed to have been made with advanced 5th-century techniques, have been ...

High on the windswept Tibetan Plateau, at an altitude of more than 14,000 feet (4.27 km), a stone inscription has sparked a ...

Nara Japan offers beauty, history and deer encounters, and is especially gorgeous during cherry blossom season.

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito has finally admitted that the future of the Chrysanthemum Throne is in peril. Speaking on the eve of his state visit to the UK in mid-June, Naruhito noted that the ...

Japan eventually decided to adopt a similar approach, leading to the demise of the ancient Japanese practice of accepting female emperors and maternal lines of descent.” ...