More than 120,000 Japanese Americans were held in two Arizona camps in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.

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Nevada is the only state where people can legally purchase sex, and now sex workers at one of the state's oldest brothels are ...

Japanophiles, look away now. A country renowned for inspiring fascination, warm feelings and not a little envy in its ...

Never has it won as decisively as it did in a snap election on February 8th, when it took almost 70% of the seats in parliament’s powerful lower house. Takaichi Sanae, the triumphant prime minister, ...

So Javier, how much of Sanae Takaichi’s election victory was about her, and how much of it was her policy agenda? It’s ...

A Russian drone strike on Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region killed three toddlers and their father, and injured their pregnant mother.

Eight people have been killed and 25 injured in the shootings at a school and home in a rural community in western Canada, police say.

It was a risky gamble to call a snap election – her career was on the line. But now Japan’s Sanae Takaichi is basking in the ...

From sacred rituals to daily life, explore rural Japan a century ago through National Geographic’s vivid photos.

Japan's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is one of the democratic world's most successful electoral machines, governing for all ...

Young voters are drawn to a selfless, funny, and plain-spoken woman who has already broken taboos as Japan’s first female prime minister.