Last spring, the Japan National Tourism Organization reported back-to-back months with more than 3 million inbound visitors, ...

Boy, howdy, do we have a quiet New Music Friday on our hands this week, folks. Not to pull the curtain too far here, but here ...

It is a problem most skiers and snowboarders would pay to have. Japan, long revered as a powder Mecca, has faced a chilling reality in recent years: warming winters, diminished snowfall ...

TOKYO, March 11 (Reuters) - Japan's economy expanded in the October-December quarter at a slower pace than initially reported, weighed by weaker consumption but still likely supporting the case ...

After earning absolute power over Japan’s feuding factions, Tokugawa Ieyasu became the island nation’s first shogun, and in the early 17th century he consolidated his political control in Edo ...

But no one could deny that it ushered in a period of relative peace and remarkable prosperity that is justifiably known as Pax Americana. The post-war period made the U.S. the greatest economy on ...

With the end of Pax Americana in sight, the main question is whether European and East Asian democracies will form new defense alliances. But while doing so will require the leadership of Germany and ...

Japan is fighting a forest fire that has damaged dozens of homes and forced hundreds of residents to evacuate in a northeastern coastal city. The fire has burned about 2,100 hectares (5,190 acres ...

It’s not to lament the passing of the Pax Americana; under which, until very recently, the world has been more safe, more free, more fair and more rich for more people than ever before in history.

Pic: AP Only five nations have been successful in soft-landings in the past: The then-Soviet Union, the US, China, India and Japan ... limited budget with robotic craft that must land on their ...

This “Pax Americana” — characterized by relatively stable international relations, expanding global trade, unprecedented prosperity and the absence of great-power conflict — is abruptly ...