I smiled, looking at the Shinagawa license plates on my rental car ... It is part of the series "Lisa’s UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Japan," which depicts various parts of the country through ...

I learned about the latest inclusion of a Chinese element in the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage list (bringing the total to 44 for China, the most in the world) when I attended the Lunar New ...

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The SpeciaList Honolulu-born actress and singer Tia Carrere is forever beloved as the "babelicious" rocker Cassandra in Wayne's World and the ... China, Japan, Portugal. They couldn't speak ...

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito, marking his 65th birthday, stressed the importance to keep telling the tragedy of the World War II ...

It is one of the "Ancient Capitals of Asuka and Fujiwara" for which Japan is seeking a UNESCO World Heritage listing. (Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Japanese government recommended on Tuesday ...

According to UNESCO, the Mausoleum of Oljaitu is an essential link and ... early 13th centuries), during which the arts of Iran gained distinction in the Islamic world, thereby setting the stage for ...

inspiration and progress for the well-being of all humankind”, the Japan Expo in Osaka will open in April to spread its theme titled “Resonance of Lives” around the world. The organisers s ...

The Japanese government has recommended ancient capitals located in current-day Nara Prefecture as candidates for UNESCO's World Heritage list to be inscribed ... Help us improve health care in Japan.

More than 100 high school students — the children of Navy parents and Defense Department employees — staged a half-hour ...

Scores of unexploded bombs dating from World War II have been recovered from a children’s playground in northern England after a chance discovery. Local officials in the town of Wooler ...

Japan is heavily dependent on imported fossil fuels as the world's fifth largest single-country emitter of carbon dioxide after China, the United States, India and Russia. On Tuesday Tokyo's ...