A handful of retired Marines — all in the late 90s or over 100 — joined Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Japan’s Prime ...
We drank Japanese tea, ate a Sumo-style hot pot dinner, walked through a bamboo forest and even climbed inside a giant Buddha ...
For centuries, residents in central Japan have chronicled a mysterious natural phenomenon in winter. They see its ...
One of the country's largest statues of Buddhist monk Kukai (774-835), posthumously called Kobo Daishi, at Imayama Daishi ...
A three-foot statue of the Hindu deity Vishnu had washed ashore. The sculpture was broken in pieces, but experts recognized it as depicting Vishnu in the Janardanaya avatar, one of his 24 divine forms ...
At least 24 people have been killed and 26 have been injured as South Korea battles the most destructive wildfires in its ...
Ikebana, the Japanese floral art, is an ideal way to connect with nature and find inner harmony. This ancient art not only ...
SEOUL--Wind-driven wildfires that were among South Korea’s worst ever were ravaging the country’s southern regions, killing ...
While excavating the Ta Prohm temple in Angkor in 1927, a team of archaeologists discovered the head (and only the head) of a ...
Culling ancient works from the Asia Society’s collection, Rina Banerjee, Howardena Pindell, and Byron Kim look to the past to challenge ideas of identity and authenticity.
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This February 2025 image provided by the Apsara National Authority, shows a headless statue excavated by ...