In both burgeoning urban centers, ambitious middle-class parents embraced such books as steppingstones on their children’s path to literacy and a better life. Japan’s earliest illustrated ...

Noah Pickholtz, a tech investor, wrote a children's book about autonomous vehicles ... In Eastern countries like Japan, ...

In his personal, engaging new book, “Sorrowful Mysteries,” the novelist and journalist Stephen Harrigan explores the enduring ...

Unable to afford textbooks while growing up on Japan’s northwest coast, Yoko Breckenridge would borrow them from friends and copy each chapter by hand. Breckenridge, who married an American soldier ...

The Sacramento Public Library's month-long Día de los Niños series celebrates Mexican culture with “Lucha Libro in the Stacks ...

The books have since been adapted into a Japanese anime, transformed into a nationally-toured ... Complete with eight books, this award-winning children series by Beverly Cleary follows the adventures ...

The John Denver Experience, 7 p.m. Thursday, April 10, Ohio Star Theater, 1387 Old Route 39, west of Sugarcreek on the Dutch Valley Campus. The performance features Chris Collins and Boulder Canyon.

The American Civil Liberties Union is suing the Department of Defense’s school system over banned race- and gender-related ...

A group of 12 students sued the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) over changes that have been made to ...

The new U.S. ambassador to Japan has arrived in Tokyo and says he is optimistic that his country and its key Asian ally will ...

The American Airlines flight was forced to turn around over the Atlantic after a passenger on board allegedly became disruptive and challenged flight attendants who told him to return to his seat.

KAWASAKI -- A local photojournalist here will publish a book compiling pictures he took in war-torn Ukraine over a span of more than 200 days, using crowdfunding to cover part of the publishing cost.