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

The rare version of Christianity heading toward extinction - Hidden Christians are dying out, and there is growing certainty ...

Japan's Emperor Naruhito and his family have prayed for all the war dead in one of the bloodiest battles of World War II ...

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and his family have prayed for all the war dead in one of the bloodiest battles of World War II fought on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa 80 years ago ...

your efforts to open a new chapter of reconciliation are more valuable than ever,” he said. “The Holy See follows these efforts with great attention and joins in prayer for the peaceful ...

AND FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ITS 800 YEAR ... SPRING AND A PRAYER FOR A GOOD HARVEST IN GIFU PREFECTURE, JAPAN. IT’S EVEN BEEN DESIGNATED AN INTANGIBLE FOLK CULTURAL ASSET BY THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT.

Peter Aitken is a Newsweek Politics Editor based in New York ... March-April fiscal year, but racked up a surplus with the U.S., according to provisional data from the Japanese Finance Ministry.

Lucknow: Prayers, Bengali community celebrated ‘Poila Boishak' the Bengali new year with great fervour and gaiety. At Kali Bari temple devotees gathered to take blessings from the goddess on the ...

Families spend time together on “Family Day” and visit Buddhist monasteries (wats) for alms-giving and prayers. Japanese New Year, Oshogatsu falls on January 1. The Osoji ritual involves thorough ...

Owen John Baggett left his co-pilot’s seat of his Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber and moved past nineteen year-old Sgt ... even reaching the target, a Japanese railroad bridge at Pyinmana ...

The only problem with that line of thinking is last year’s World Series ratings. The Dodgers and New York Yankees pulled ... were the two top answers given by Japanese respondents when asked ...