Katsuo-ji offers visitors two different types of Darumas: the Kachi-Daruma, the classic doll known as “the winning Daruma” ...

Japan’s largest yakuza crime syndicate has pledged to end its longstanding war with a rival faction and refrain from causing “trouble,” authorities said, as the mafia-like groups contend ...

Kosen Ohtsubo has been unsettling the ancient art of flower arranging with conventional materials and atypical botanicals.

A senior Labour MP has been accused of abandoning his constituents by taking a luxury trip to Japan during the Birmingham bin strike crisis. Liam Byrne, the MP for Birmingham Hodge Hill and ...

On a recent day when the wind gusted close to 40 miles per hour, 82-year-old George Neill was making repairs on his ranch, oblivious to the ...

Originally conceived in the mid-1800s to honor Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich (who died in Nice), the St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral wasn't completed until the early 20th century.

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AFP becomes one of the main source for international news. We've got various news from around the world. I can say that AFP news content is diverse and credible, and they can fit with the ...

The New Museum, Manhattan’s only museum dedicated exclusively to contemporary art, today announced that its 60,000 sq ft building expansion designed by OMA / Shohei Shigematsu and Rem Koolhaas in ...

Cyprus has a population of about 1.1 million, nearly 82 percent of whom follow the Greek Orthodox Church and celebrate Easter ... who then carry them around the church while following an icon of ...

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