Notes On The Season column features Tom Cruise hosting FYC event for Japan's Oscar entry, plus some highlights of big awards ...

In Japan, the World Baseball Classic is held to a higher standard of importance than most other countries (and, to its fans, ...

A traditional Japanese festival is being adapted for poodles and Pomeranians, amid a booming pet industry and a dearth of ...

Kabuki drama 'Kokuho' has made box office history, becoming the highest-grossing Japanese live-action film of all time in its ...

Tulum Mexican Restaurant, N140 Eisenhower Drive in Appleton, is permanently closed after three years of business. An employee at Tulum Mexican Restaurant's other location, 3066 Village Park Drive in ...

Beware the bears: that's the grizzly warning from the U.S. Embassy to Americans living in Japan, after a record spate of attacks in recent months. “Bear sightings and attacks have increased in parts ...

Eagle-eyed rock fans recognized Jay Buchanan as the singer of the Stone Pony house band in Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, singing Little Richard and John Lee Hooker songs with Jeremy Allen ...

The Jomon people living in prehistoric Japan had "little to no" Denisovan DNA, suggesting their ancestors may not have been in contact with this now-extinct group of Eurasian humans, a new study ...

This week's show was recorded in Orange County with host Peter Sagal, guest judge and scorekeeper Alzo Slade, Not My Job guest Roy Choi and panelists Karen Chee, Negin Farsad, and Tom Papa. Click the ...

The Iowa State Cyclones knew that they had some holes in their rotation to address this offseason. Despite returning the most points and minutes played in the Big 12, there was a lot of talent not ...

In Mother Mary Comes to Me, the icon of Indian letters revisits the time that forged her as a writer. Arundhati Roy, 2002. After college, I took a long trip to India. The ostensible reason was to ...

NAPOLEON -- Buchanan is in the far southwestern corner of the state, closer to South Bend, Indiana and Chicago than to Napoleon. With the Bucks off in their own part of the Lower Peninsula, they ...