MITO--Yasuko Yasuhara, once a top party hostess in this Ibaraki prefectural capital, made an inevitable career shift as she ...

There’s not much shogun-era history left in Japan but Matsumoto, north-west of Tokyo, is a great place to relive samurai rule ...

Home to some of the most impressive and storied shrines in Japan, many parts of Nikko remain off the beaten path, offering a ...

The United States announced it had reached a trade deal with Vietnam on Wednesday, which will see Washington impose a 20 per ...

From The Castle in the Sky's Colonel Muska to Lady Asaji from Throne of Blood, we remember the most iconic villains in Asian ...

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In the 1960s the United States government lied to the American people and took us into a terrible war in Vietnam. The result of that war was that over ...

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A Japanese government panel on Friday proposed the designation of the Atomic Bomb Dome in the western city of Hiroshima as a special historic site. It will likely become the country's first such site ...

Ghost of Yotei is set at a pivotal point in the history — 1603 was the year the Tokugawa Shogunate was formed by Tokugawa Ieyasu, one of Japan’s great unifiers, putting an end to decades of ...