It was in the late spring of 1955 that Japanese literature scholar Donald Keene first traveled to northeastern Japan's Tohoku region to follow the ste･･･ ...

Remarkably there is just one more week of the Major League Rugby (MLR) regular season left to go. Here's Joe Harvey's five ...

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We catch up with writer and food personality Yukari Sakamoto on why she's been visiting the famed hot spring since the 80s.

Beneath the cherry blossoms of Hiroshima, memories of devastation linger — but so does hope. This exclusive extract from Six Minutes to Winter, Mark Lynas’s urgent new book on the threat of nuclear ...

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We booked our recent trip to Japan a year in advance to see the cherry blossoms, which only bloom briefly in the spring.

With Lars Nootbaar feeling the doldrums of a 1-for-19 slump that included eight strikeouts and just one walk -- a skid that was particularly jarring considering his strong start to the season -- Cardi ...

Shohei Ohtani became the third player in Dodgers history to reach 20 homers in the team’s first 55 games with a two-run drive ...

Japan said it plans to use some of the soil removed from near the contaminated Fukushima nuclear plant on flower beds outside Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s office to show it ...

After dry weather over the last couple weeks, Houston storm chances are expected to increase each day through the middle of ...