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A local marriage tradition in the island of Timor helped these women escape becoming comfort women during Japanese occupation.

Surfing used to be a dirty pastime in the People's Republic, until Olympic dreams changed everything

Mmmm… sour cream and onion fried noodles.

Takashi Murakami, master of the post-anime "superflat" aesthetic, has brought his older work into dialogue with some ambitious new projects, transforming the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow—and several other museums—into wild visual playpens.

Twenty years ago, Gustavo Mizushima, whose family moved from Japan to Bolivia in the aftermath of World War II, discovered giant clams on his fish farm. No one knows how they got there, but the mollusks are now in high demand.

The Japanese hashtag #僧衣でできるもん, “I can do it in monk’s robes,” is more than just a Twitter thing.

Brutalist concrete structures, winding vertical mazes and steel facades – anything goes in Japan

The Japanese barely eat whale meat anymore.

What’s red, white, and involves feasting on a large fried chicken, brought to you by a jolly, overweight bearded white man? Japanese KFC.

The calendar's rampant success has been attributed to young Japanese women calling themselves "Putin fans."

The explosion was so big that people in Sapporo thought it was an earthquake.

New Zealand-Japanese artist Aiko Robinson takes her scenes from contemporary porn but renders them in the style of Shunga, a form of sexually explicit traditional Japanese printmaking.