they had built a ceramics factory in Noritake, Takaba-village, Aichi, Japan. This allowed the company to control the quality of its goods and designs and ensured that the patterns appealed to U.S ...

The pattern is consistent with other group imitation ... chimpanzees over 600 hours in Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan. They found that the shorter the distance between chimps in a group ...

Located in the Yamagata region about 260 miles north of Tokyo, the onsen is one of the most famous in Japan, drawing around 330,000 visitors each year. Travelers from around the world flock to the ...

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As 2024 nears its end and we look back on the year in entertainment, it was clearly one when Japan-related works loomed large on the global market. It is a diverse group of works. Some were made ...

Japan is staring down a demographic cliff. The population has shrunk for 15 straight years, with births hitting a record low of 730,000 last year and deaths a record high of 1.58 million.

As the quote goes, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." But what if the past wasn't taught in the first place? Oftentimes, history books completely overlook or sanitize ...

Influenza continues to rage across Japan, with an estimated 1.67 million people becoming sick and seeing doctors in the week through last Sunday, double the level the week before, according to ...

The 1930s movie era saw numerous changes to the Hollywood industry and fantastic talent. The film industry helped stir up the nation's morale while the world was facing a crushing depression and a ...

Standing on the steps of the Élysée Palace on December 7th, Donald Trump made a for-once accurate observation: “It certainly seems like the world is going a little crazy right now,” the US ...

After all, very few moving pictures of Kansas City from the 1920s and 1930s are available. Home movie cameras, which were introduced by Kodak in 1923 weren’t cheap. Film stock often degraded ...

The year 1930 was a memorable one for the world’s most potent criminal, Alphonse (“Scarface Al”) Capone of Chicago. He emerged from jail, having served a nine-month term for a minor offense ...