Last year shoppers looking to buy rice faced empty shelves. Rice is now available, but prices remain high: in March the cost ...

A trio of researchers from Bocconi University, in Italy, the University of Cambridge, in the U.K., and Stanford University, ...

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I put my daily routine to the test in Matera, Italy—one of the most ancient cities on Earth—before jumping to the futuristic world of Tokyo, Japan ... and the spiraling economy—so they ...

The high-level engagements between China, Japan, and the ROK over the past few days represent a significant step toward renewed and enhanced trilateral cooperation that promises to give a shot in the ...

ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece (AP) — New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has returned an ancient bronze griffin head stolen nearly a century ago to a museum in southern Greece, the latest ...

TOKYO -- The drastic rise of rice prices in Japan has not stopped households from buying more of the dietary staple. The price of rice jumped by 70.9% in January from a year earlier, consumer ...

Struggling to master a new skill? What if the secret to success wasn’t found in modern hacks but in an ancient Japanese philosophy? Meet Geidō, a 700-year-old tradition that transforms learning ...

HAEBARU TOWN, Okinawa — A 6-year-old Japanese girl stood with her back to Defense Department students gathered Thursday to learn about the Japanese abacus, or soroban, at the Tsukazan Community ...

India may soon be included to be part of the informal multilateral grouping, Squad, comprising Australia, Japan, the Philippines and United States. India is already part of the QUAD bloc along ...

The Sixth China-Japan High-Level Economic Dialogue is set to take place in Tokyo on Saturday, Ministry of Commerce spokesperson He Yongqian said on Thursday, noting that the dialogue serves as a ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, right, attends a ministerial meeting on the government's monthly economic report at the premier's office in Tokyo on March 19, 2025. (Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo ...