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At least 19 people are confirmed dead after a fire engulfed a psychiatric clinic in the southern Japanese city Osaka,…
In the two years since COVID-19 has swept across the world, a number of goods have made it into our…
The New Zealand government said it would ban all sales of cigarettes for its future generations, as part of the…
Steamed, scorched, pounded or fried, rice always delivers. The adaptability of rice is in part what makes this staple the…
On Sunday, former Japanese princess Mako landed in New York’s John F. Kennedy airport with her commoner husband Kei Komuro,…
A former nurse who killed three of her patients by mixing detergent into their IV drips was sentenced to life…
Through a hole in a wall, no bigger than an airplane window, customers are handed their drinks and decorative parfaits.…
On this island they call Japan’s paradise, the sea marks the passage of time. Languid waves beckon to families as…
The oh-so-fearsome Tyrannosaurus rex—king of the tyrant lizards—was actually a foodie, a new study suggests. Sure, the dinosaur may have…
Celebrating a gold medalist’s win? Fine. Borrowing someone’s gold medal for a sweet photo op? Permissible. But biting it? Now,…