Literature is concerned with humankind and human life in its entirety. This includes everything that impinges on human life; it covers every aspect of experience and aspirations, politics inclusive.

On Ikitsuki and other remote sections of Nagasaki prefecture, Hidden Christians still pray to these disguised objects. They ...

On the rural islands off the coast of Japan, a handful of believers practice a version of Christianity that has direct links ...

The samurai were a preeminent class defending Japan for centuries. But as the Tokugawa shogunate ushered in an era of ...

In some cases, steep, deep decline. Maybe most graphically (and demographically) there's Japan: a country that, since hitting a high of 128 million citizens in 2008, has lost population for 15 ...

Modern Japan sounds like a sci-fi premise: the incredible shrinking country. Japan may have one of the longest national life expectancies, about 85 years, and the world's largest city, Tokyo.

Vice President JD Vance called Chinese people "peasants" during an interview with Fox. Anger against Vance's comment is fueling further discontent over US tariffs on China. Many Chinese social ...

A top Chinese official warned Tuesday that President Trump’s “extremely shameless” tariff war would backfire soon — leaving “those peasants in the US” wailing. Xia Baolong, a senior ...

She’s one of the most enduringly popular figures of classical ballet: Giselle, the deceived young peasant girl with a ... of the National Ballet of Japan (NBJ), Yoshida takes her original ...

He added: “We borrow money from Chinese peasants to buy the things those ... to prioritize our allies and our trading partners like Japan and Korea and others.” ...

You can get in touch with Ryan by emailing [email protected]. The Japanese government has warned of catastrophic economic damage and nearly 300,000 deaths when the next "megaquake" hits the ...

Peasant advocates led by the progressive peasant network Kilusang ... In between American colonization, Japanese invaders colonized us briefly when World War II was brewing. For centuries, justice and ...