Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he was grateful to the team for creating the film and cheered the award as ...

The Pritzker Architecture Prize was awarded to Japan’s Riken Yamamoto in March, who earned the field’s highest honor for what ...

Wabi-sabi is typically described as a traditional Japanese aesthetic: the beauty of something perfectly imperfect, in the ...

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Ukraine will need more than a billion dollars to rebuild the scientific infrastructure that was damaged or destroyed during ...

Hayao Miyazaki won for helming the best animated film “The Boy and the Heron,” the long-awaited fantasy from the director of ...

Set in Japan in 1600, the 10-episode limited series “Shōgun” is a fictional story. But it is rooted in the real history of ...

About 880 tons of highly radioactive melted nuclear fuel remain inside the three damaged reactors. Critics say the 30- to ...

Japan’s ancient capital of Kyoto, long a popular destination for tourists, has closed off some private-property alleys in its ...

A unique exhibit is the Sendai Coast Illustration Map on the second floor. Illustrator Junko Sato, who lives in Sendai, ...

The story of the 47 Ronin, also known as the Ako Incident, dates back to the early 18th century. It revolves around a group ...