According to Loretta Ross and Rickie Solinger, reproductive justice “demands sexual autonomy and gender freedom for every ...

Japan is not often considered to be a nation of unrest. But it takes rice seriously. Eto Taku, the country’s agriculture ...

Japanese walking offers significant health benefits. A 2007 study from Japan compared this method to lower-intensity continuous walking, with a goal of achieving 8,000 steps per day.

Adapting to peace. Once the Tokugawa regime was established after the conquest of Ōsaka Castle in 1615, Japan enjoyed a period of peace, disturbed only by a few peasant revolts.

Japan’s Best Countryside Hotels That Easily Slide Into Any Itinerary Travel to Japan is exploding. Here are five great hotels worth adding to your “Tokyo-Kyoto+1” itinerary.

Symbolizing the kinben spirit is Sontoku Ninomia, a peasant leader of early 19th-century Japan. Most Japanese learn about Sontoku Ninomia in school.

The 19th Route Army is still China’s crack corps. Recently it was sent to deal with China’s gravest military problem, the spread of Communist armies in the central provinces (TIME, Aug. 15 et ...

It was only in the mid-19th century, after American Commodore Matthew Perry forced Japan to open its ports to foreign powers, that the country’s hidden Christian communities started to resurface.

Creepy Nuts’ “Bling-Bang-Bang-Born” continues to rule the Billboard Japan Hot 100 for the 19th week on the chart released June 26.. The viral hip-hop hit comes in at No. 2 for downloads ...

Japan has allocated 134 MW of PV capacity in its latest procurement exercise. The lowest bid for a 19 MW solar project came in at JPY 0.00/kWh, surprisingly, while other bids ranged from JPY 4.94 ...

This world was inevitably small. As the 19th-century Polish ethnographer Oskar Kolberg recalled, when he asked Belarusian peasants who they were, often they would respond, “I, Mister, am a local”.

TOKYO : Japan's real wages declined for a 19th consecutive month in October, government data showed on Friday, highlighting that cost-push pressures continue to stifle consumers' purchasing power ...