Kurosawa Kiyoshi talks his Cannes-premiering jidaigeki 'The Samurai and the Prisoner' on cowardly heroes and the cost of ...

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The ninth year of the Kansei era of the Edo Period (1603-1867) in feudal Japan corresponds to the year 1797 in the West.

The fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 was a pivotal moment in human history, when Germanic chieftain Odoacer deposed teenage emperor Romulus Augustulus in Italy and set in motion the collapse of ...

The Tenpō Famine of the 1830s was one of the worst in Japanese history, with the poor weather causing escalating rice prices as a major cause. To better understand how historical weather anomalies ...

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In Tsurezuregusa, a medieval Japanese essay written by Kenkō, a priest with the characteristics of behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), has been described. He had characteristics such ...

Thank you for following our live updates on the magnitude 7.7 earthquake that struck off the north of Japan. Its epicentre was in the Pacific Ocean and was 10km deep, the Japan Meteorological Agency ...

Tokyo — A powerful earthquake struck off the northern Japanese coast Monday, prompting the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) to issue a tsunami alert for a wide section of coastline, though waves of ...