The Rookwood Pottery Company was at the forefront of the art pottery movement in the United States. It was founded in 1880 in Cincinnati, Ohio, by Maria Longworth Nichols, making it one of the ...

Legions of fans from around the world have been cheering on Punch, a 7-month-old macaque who had been struggling to socialize at a zoo outside Tokyo. By Remy Tumin Punch, a 7-month-old macaque monkey, ...

Osaka is known as Japan’s food capital and this eel restaurant has been serving customers for over 300 years. Specializing in traditional unagi, the techniques here have been passed down for ...

Miles Wu folded a variant of the Miura-ori pattern that can hold 10,000 times its own weight Ramsha Waseem - Freelance writer Wu’s innovation won the top prize of $25,000 at the 2025 Thermo Fisher ...

The back of a 1980s colonial-style residence in suburban Boston might sound like an incongruous location for a centuries-old traditional Japanese house, or minka. Nevertheless, in the bedroom ...

A young Australian man who died while skiing in Japan has been identified, as heartbreaking tributes pour in. Michael “Micky” Hurst, 27, was skiing in unpatrolled back-country terrain between Niseko ...

The Boston Red Sox have been busy building one of baseball's strongest pitching staffs on baseball this winter. Adding starting pitchers Ranger Suárez, Sonny Gray, and Johan Oviedo to back up ace ...

HALIFAX COUNTY, Va. (WDBJ) - A 100-year-old woman is preserving African American history through her quilts and now has a new book out. Halifax County native Edith Edmunds stitches patterns in her ...

NARA, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Japan and South Korea aim to deepen security and economic ties to counter growing tension in East Asia, their leaders said on Tuesday, after a summit meeting in Japan.

A large shop in Japan has barren shelves and is running low on gaming PCs as hardware around the world gets more expensive Japan PC Gaming RAM As PC components like RAM continue to be gobbled up by AI ...

A new report from a U.S. foreign policy think tank is urging Washington to renegotiate a decades-old agreement with Japan to reduce the Marine Corps presence on Okinawa, arguing that the deal should ...

SUWA, Nagano - Almost every winter for hundreds of years, a mystical phenomenon known as “omiwatari” or “miwatari” would occur on Lake Suwa in Nagano Prefecture. Cracks would appear in the frozen lake ...