Japanese lawmakers are close to a breakthrough that will ensure the years of strife and panic that plagued the Imperial ...

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

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

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.” ...

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 ...