With more than 28 million visitors expected to descend on Osaka for the Osaka-Kansai World Expo 2025, Waldorf Astoria's opening could not be more perfectly timed.

“It looks like it will die,” Nishibori said of the cherry tree, “but it’s not going to die. The next spring, there will be ...

Periods including “fish emerge from the ice” in mid-February and “rainbows hide” in late November offer a framework for ...

The Olympic torch relay appeared to go smoothly in the Thai capital Saturday amid heavy security and scattered protests along the route. Organizers of the Bangkok leg of the relay said they did not ...

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This underrated city was once the capital of Japan in the Middle Ages and is now a beautiful, tourist-friendly hub with ...

The Tōkaidō was the most important route in 19th-century Japan. It connected Edo (modern-day Tokyo), the de facto capital ...

Fifteen years after a previous visit, the country seemed much busier in places, but noticeably cheaper than the UK ...

Businesses operators along the foot trail to the famed Pathibhara temple, situated atop a hill at an altitude of 3794 meters, are not worried of the frigid temperature in the unforgiving terrain. Nor ...

Showing in Kyoto for the first time in over seven decades, Dior chose Toji Temple to present its autumn/winter 2025 ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Tens of thousands of people gathered at the holiest Jewish prayer site in Jerusalem on Tuesday for the traditional priestly blessing prayer.

On his official visit to Bihar, Japanese Ambassador to India Keiichi Ono paid tribute to India’s freedom movement by meeting Asha Sahay Choudhry, a veteran of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s Rani of ...