For the opening of her new store in Los Angeles, the florist Ren MacDonald-Balasia filled the space with food and flowers ...

The Sapporo Snow Festival is an annual weeklong event that dates to 1950 in Hokkaido, the northernmost of Japan's main islands. The festival features around 200 sculptures, according to the Japan ...

The Los Angeles Dodgers reinforced their recent dominance of Major League Baseball by winning the eighth World Series title ...

The iconic Maneki Neko, or beckoning cat, is a common good fortune figurine from Japan, that you may have spotted loyally sat ...

an Art Nouveau ornament co-designed by Alphonse Mucha and Georges Fouquet; a 19th-century diamond-and-topaz parure from the ...

See more top cherry blossom spots in Fukushima here. ・Kenrokuen Garden (Ishikawa/Kanazawa): Ranked among Japan's three most famous gardens, Kenrokuen features about 40 varieties and 420 cherry trees, ...

Hannah Wallace If you need an escape from urban landscapes, seek out Zen-like tranquility at the Japanese Garden within Washington Park. The 12-acre Portland Japanese Garden is made up of eight ...

As the sounds of taiko and fue — traditional Japanese drums and flute — began to fill the Miller Living Room gathering space at the Portland Japanese Garden on Sunday, a crowd squeezed in ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] TOKYO (AP) — Japan on Thursday ...

TOKYO -- Japan welcomed a record 36.87 million tourists in 2024, up 47.1% from the previous year thanks to the weak yen, according to data released Wednesday by the Japan National Tourism ...

China's debt-laden real estate giant Country Garden has announced a huge deficit in its long-overdue 2023 financial results. The company on Tuesday reported a net loss of 178.4 billion yuan.

Understandably, owners are less than enthused by their expensive static displays. One owner went as far as to call their EV a “lawn ornament.” While that might be something of an oversimplification, ...