A guide to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios in Japan. Click to read our guide on how you can gave a ...

The world's oldest person is now 116-year-old Brazilian nun Inah Canabarro Lucas, who was born 16 days after Tomiko Itooka.

Whether review culture symbolises the democratisation of taste or the demise of expertise, it’s too late to turn back to a ...

A common anecdote of customer service in Japan is having a clerk chase you down the street and trying to catch their breath ...

Japan has seven “lucky” gods. According to legend, they sail into harbor on New Year’s morning on their treasure ship to bring luck to believers. In keeping with that belief, completing a pilgrimage ...

Tehran’s city council on Tuesday approved renaming a street in the Iranian capital after the late Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, the official IRNA news agency reported. The former Bistoon Street ...

The modern Olympic Games are the world’s foremost multi-sports event. They are the largest sporting celebration in terms of the number of sports on the programme, the number of athletes present and ...

The season's first snow fell in central Tokyo on Thursday, 15 days earlier than an average year and 25 days earlier than last season, the country's weather agency said. According to the Japan ...

Spanish authorities have cracked a year-long murder mystery with an unexpected assist from Google Street View ... services when they noticed a Google Maps image that appeared to show a person ...

Google Street View allows users to navigate maps in three dimensions with real photos captured by cameras shot by cars driving streets around the world.

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tokyo stocks opened sharply lower Thursday, tracking steep losses on Wall Street overnight after the Federal Reserve suggested there may be fewer interest rate cuts next year amid ...

Police in northern Spain say a Google Street View image has helped them make arrests in a murder investigation. The image shows a man loading a bag, which police suspect contained human remains ...