Shuntaro Tanikawa, who pioneered modern Japanese poetry, poignant but conversational in its divergence from haiku and other ...

TOKYO (AP) — Shuntaro Tanikawa, who pioneered modern Japanese poetry, poignant but conversational in its divergence from ...

The religious connotations of sake are evident at the brewery. The big cedar-leaves ball hanging under the eaves is a symbol ...

Then an ancient 14.5 kilometer-long wall was discovered at the site, according to research led by French archaeologist Guillaume Charloux published earlier this year. For a new study published in the ...

This week the Palestine Festival of Literature, known as Palfest, announced that over 1,000 writers have signed on to a literary boycott of Israel. In a public letter, these writers declared that ...

Han Kang, the South Korean winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature, made her breakthrough in the English-speaking world with her first translated novel (her third in Korean), The Vegetarian.

Even though Japan's greenhouse gas emissions have decreased throughout the past decade, air pollution causes over 44 thousand deaths annually. Rapid industrial development, economic growth ...

Increased land management by Aboriginal people in southeastern Australia around 6,000 years ago cut forest shrub cover in half, according to our new study of fossil pollen trapped in ancient mud.

Take cues from ancient wisdom and shift your mindset to transform your winter experience from daunting to delightful. People gather at Stonehenge to celebrate the winter solstice, an ancient ...

The new fossil, found in Argentina, surpasses the previous ancient record holder by about 20 million years. Imprinted in a slab of sandstone are parts of the tadpole's skull and backbone ...

“Japan is standing on the verge of whether [it] can continue to function as a society.” While the Japanese government and people might not be against immigrants, Japan could provide them with better ...

The Auxikko pattern was coined from taking inspiration from ancient Japanese Kikkō (hexagonal plates built into Samurai body armor) and auxetics, which are materials engineered to grow strong ...