J APAN is consumed by talk of a “foreigner problem”. The story goes that the country has been overrun by ill-mannered migrant ...

On July 4 this year, the United States will mark 250 years since the ratification of the Declaration of Independence, marking ...

Mongolia wants to resurrect the ancient capital of the Mongol Empire as a modern-day urban hub. A scale model of the planned ...

Tayari Jones, Ann Patchett, George Saunders and Veronica Roth return with new novels; Jennette McCurdy makes her fiction ...

The USA is descending into a state of general lawlessness, at home and abroad. From using domestic special ops paramilitary units (ICE) to kidnap people ...

On the 15th of August 1945, the Japanese empire capitulated after the United States threw atomic bombs on Hiroshima and ...

A city-enhancing “starchitect,” a savior of IBM, a revered fashion designer and the founding chairman of the US Commodity ...

A German slapstick comedy Western parody, a kabuki drama from Japan, an Indian historical action epic, a satire anthology ...

TOKYO — Japan on Friday issued a tsunami advisory after a 6.7-magnitude earthquake shook the country’s northeast, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. The quake occurred off the east coast of ...

This year in country music was all about artists discovering ways to innovate old forms and traditions. In some cases, like Eric Church’s Evangeline vs. the Machine and Carter Faith’s stunning debut ...

Japan issued a megaquake advisory Tuesday after a magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck off the eastern coast of Aomori, the northernmost prefecture of Japan's main island of Honshu, and just south of the ...