Kanpai! Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is hoping the U.S.-Japan relationship doesn’t lose its fizz.
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Meetings with Joe Biden and Donald Trump suggest Japan is hedging over the outcome of the US election.
South Korea’s pesident faces political woes.
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The South Korean leader seeks to strengthen ties with the US and Japan. But he might be hamstrung by domestic concerns.
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Raising interest rates can’t stop Japan’s currency from sinking to a record low.
A Shinkansen bullet train running past Mount Fuji in Japan.
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The Shinkansen bullet train is symbolic of Japan’s position as a railway superpower.
Lavrov and Yi meet in Beijing to discuss the ongoing relationship between Russia and China.
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China and Russia have jointly criticised the west, as well as pledging economic and security co-operation.
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AUKUS is still a very new partnership, so expansion isn’t viewed as a priority until the envisioned technology sharing is proven to work.
Hideko Takamine as Carmen in Carmen Comes Home (1951).
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One hundred years after her birth, Hideko Takamine’s films deserve to be more widely seen outside Japan
Is South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol waving goodbye to his popularity?
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Heading into a parliamentary vote, there is very little gap between the ruling People Power Party and opposition Democratic Party – raising the prospect of a smaller party emerging as kingmaker.
Actress Anna Sawai, who plays Mariko in FX’s ‘Shōgun,’ attends the Los Angeles premiere of the series on Feb. 13, 2024.
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Compared to its 1980 predecessor, the new FX series presents a more authentic portrayal of early modern Japan.
Old friends, new allies: Japan aims to shore up its security in Asia through its own military and a series of regional alliances.
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The invasion of Ukraine and increased Chinese pressure on Taiwan have prompted Japan to abandon decades of pacifism.
A perfectly imperfect tea bowl.
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‘Wabi’ and ‘sabi’ are Japanese words with long histories, but they are rarely used together in the way Western designers have come to use the term.
The U.S. detonates an atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll in Micronesia in the first underwater test of the device.
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For all its praise, the film furthers the dominant narrative of the bombs as a morally fraught but necessary project, with American anxieties playing a starring role.
Families relax under lush cherry trees in the Shinjuku Gyoen in Tokyo.
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The first cherry blossom viewing was organized in Japan by Emperor Saga in 812 C.E. In the ensuing years, poetry on cherry blossoms came to have a special place in Japanese culture.
South Korea’s Yoon Suk Yeol, left, and Fumio Kishida of Japan.
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Critics of the South Korean leader accuse him of eroding democracy at home while embracing a historic enemy on the international stage.
An ‘onmyoji,’ an expert on yin and yang, performs divination with counting rods in an Edo-period illustration.
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In medieval Japan, healing might mean taking medicine, undergoing an exorcism or sidestepping harm in the first place by avoiding inauspicious days.
Lionel Messi continues to face anger from Chinese fans for missing a game in Hong Kong.
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Messi will not start a war in China, but this is not to say that football lacks political relevance.
A disabled young female macaque named Monmo at the Awajishima Monkey Center in Japan.
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A community of macaques in Japan has a high rate of disabled individuals who survive with behavioural flexibility and maternal care. Globally, primate disabilities are often related to human causes.
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An homage to Honda Ishiro’s original 1954 film, the new hit Japanese film Godzilla Minus One centres on the human costs of war.
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Tourists can do a number of things to avoid dangerous encounters with monkeys.
Data from the SLIM mission projected at JAXA’s Sagamihara Campus during the craft’s landing.
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Japan is one of several countries that weren’t part of the space race of the 1950s and 1960s looking toward the Moon. They’ve now become the 5th country to have landed on its surface.