This is a fictional alternate-geography scenario, not a prediction. If Japan suddenly appeared in Europe and the United ...

Film commissions, set up by local governments to attract production crews for location shooting of films, dramas and other works, are contributing to local communities, about a quarter century after ...

Amahai was a remote settlement of no more than five hundred people. There was one elementary school, no secondary education, ...

The 21st century has seen energy sources, infrastructure, and technology become routine hard power weapons and targets. This ...

This is a hypothetical scenario, not a prediction. If a global war began, the most dangerous countries would not simply be ...

The military dimension of that pressure is logged in numbers that have become a standard feature of Taiwanese news reporting.

Considerable attention has been paid to the threat of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan, but analysts have arguably overlooked a ...

Scientists and tourists alike have been amazed by the massive sea lion hanging out on a San Francisco pier. The species can ...

Historically, and instinctively, India has seen threats emerging from the west and the north, from Pakistan and China ...

A curious clownfish peeks out from its hiding spot. Two country "princesses" poses for a portrait. A meerkat matriarch gets ...

Kokuto is Okinawa's traditional form of sugar, which is made simply by boiling down sugarcane juice, a method first introduced from China about 400 years ago. Despite Okinawa's turbulent history, the ...