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US and Japanese military aircraft on Thursday conducted a bilateral aerial exercise off eastern Taiwan as part of a joint ...
From learning to carve woodblocks or make pottery, to observing artisans at work, tourists can help sustain and revive these ...
Defying all logic, a vehicle has been found parked in the hangar of the USS Yorktown, which was famously sunk in the Pacific ...
In his cozy workshop behind his D.C. home, contemporary kumiko craftsman David Gootnick, a Craft Show featured artist, uses the raw material of his practice: a five-foot-long, two-inch-thick plank of ...
There is so much going on in and around Fort Worth this weekend that it's difficult to choose from among the many options.
However, before the Hamaki, Mitsubishi built a couple of other twin-engine bombers that were a brief proverbial “flash in the ...
A special exhibit aboard the battleship USS Missouri has a heart-wrenching perspective on what it is like for a fighter pilot ...
“It looks like it will die,” Nishibori said of the cherry tree, “but it’s not going to die. The next spring, there will be ...
From Hello Kitty to Pikachu, the country changed what the world considers adorable. But do these characters represent joy — ...
Internationally their missions are called kamikaze, but in Japan they are better known as “tokko,” which means “special attack.” The pilots flew hastily constructed planes and even reconnaissance and ...
Noh, a type of traditional Japanese theater, has been performed for 650 years, since the Muromachi period (1336-1573). Zeami, who perfected the art, taught that the most important element of noh is ...
China last year sent more drones to probe Japanese airspace than in any previous year, part of an overall increase in scrambles against foreign military aircraft, according to Japan’s Joint Staff.