The samurai were a preeminent class defending Japan for centuries. But as the Tokugawa shogunate ushered in an era of stability, the need for them faded, forcing these warriors to find a new way of ...

Immediate measures to address this crisis are a must. Japan maintains impressive standards in terms of children's intellectual abilities. Students in Japan have consistently ranked among those in ...

SHANGHAI -- A 96-year-old survivor of the Japanese army's World War II-era "comfort women" system passed away on Wednesday in Central China's Hunan province, leaving only seven registered ...

LONGTAN, CHINA—CNN reports that stone tools synonymous with Neanderthals were discovered at the Longtan site in southwest China's Yunnan Province—but no Neanderthal is thought to have ever ...

Honda Motor Co. is eliminating the mandatory retirement age for highly skilled and technical employees and the “seniority system” for executives in a personnel system reform, according to a to ...

Working Papers describe research in progress by the author(s) and are published to elicit comments and to further debate The paper summarizes how Japan’s foreign exchange and trade control system ...

A growing swath of mountain forests in Japan are not being tended to properly, mainly due to falling lumber prices, fueling concerns about the nation’s ability to maintain the functions of ...

I am the shark among the fishes and the Ganges among the rivers says Krishna in Bhagavad Gita Ganga is India s most sacred river The last three Vedas Yajur Sama Atharva gave much importance to ...

There were significant regional and temporal variations in the intensity of feudalization across medieval Europe. In this, feudalism was fundamentally different from an ancient state, which generally ...