Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is a remarkable world leader, but her blink-and-you-miss-it visit to Australia proved remarkably uneventful. Everything about the trip, in both style and ...

A campaign poster using the slogan "Undiscovered Akita Prefecture" is seen. (Photo courtesy of the Akita Prefectural Government) AKITA -- "Undiscovered Akita Prefecture." The striking catchphrase, ...

TOKYO - An Akita dog given to Russian President Vladimir Putin by Japan’s Akita Prefecture died in 2025, his office said on May 15. IThe dog, named Yume, would have celebrated her 14th birthday on ...

AKITA – A town assembly in Akita Prefecture passed a no-confidence motion on Friday against its mayor, who has been unconscious for months following a brain hemorrhage. The passage means that the ...

Pope Leo’s visit this year to Africa made the news for many reasons, but my social media blossomed with one image from his ...

The flame, which spiritual leaders say has been continuously lit for more than 1,200 years, was salvaged after the blaze and ...

In the early 1950s, entertainer Bob Hope purchased a large hand-carved Nativity set from an artisan company in northern Italy as a gift for his wife, Dolores, who was raised Catholic. For decades, it ...

Japanese leader Sanae Takaichi has called for discussions to revise the constitution, saying it should ‘reflect the demands of the times’ Japan’s prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, has called for ...

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — Thousands of visitors packed this airlift hub in western Tokyo over the weekend for the 50th annual Friendship Festival, one of the few open-base events held this year in ...

Rivera spent decades fighting for indigenous autonomy and land rights before he was arrested in 2023 amid a crackdown on government critics.

Several items found inside a time capsule gave members of the Japanese Church of Christ a new perspective on their ...

Japan’s ‘Iron Lady’ Sanae Takaichi has won a snap election she called by a historic margin, cementing her dramatic rise to power. Takaichi’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) alone captured 316 of the ...