A block in downtown San Francisco is being renamed for acclaimed photojournalist Joe Rosenthal, who won the Pulitzer Prize ...

Beijing has unveiled a new tactic on Taiwan, the democratic island it claims as its own, officials and experts say: ...

Joe Rosenthal, an AP photojournalist who captured one of the most enduring images of World War II — the U.S. Marines raising ...

Japan’s Fisheries Agency this year added fin whales to its list of three species that can be legally hunted as the country ...

The first non-Japanese to attain the rank of Grand Master of the shakuhachi bamboo flute, Riley Lee has been mesmerizing ...

Moderate mag. 4.6 earthquake - East China Sea, 143 km west of Tokashiki Jima Island, Okinawa, Japan, on Saturday, Dec 7, 2024, at 02:26 pm (GMT +8) Volcano Discovery 06:59 Sat, 07 Dec Moderate mag.

Meat from fin whales caught for the first time in nearly 50 years off Japan’s northern coast has fetched up to more than ...

Residents’ fears are growing on Ishigakijima island in southwestern Japan that the government’s widening defense plan to protect the nation will put them in the line of fire. It has been one ...

Helena Pagano's great-grandfather was the last Alaska Native chief of a remote island in the Bering Sea, closer to Russia than North America. He died starving as a prisoner of war after Japanese ...

from the rural mountains of Japan’s Shikoku Island to the river’s mouth at the Pacific Ocean. That I’m riding an e-bike has me feeling my age even more acutely: Do I look like someone who ...

by 5 mi.) Anatahan Island in the Marianas when the survivors of three bombed Japanese ships swam ashore in 1945. For three years the couple lived with the castaways, until one day Kazuko’s ...