A controversial ancient map has sparked debate among historians and theorists alike. Could this be evidence of lost ...

Ricci map - detail from a China panel. All images via Wikipedia. In 1602, the Wanli Emperor of the Ming dynasty had a big ...

As the world marks the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki — and as renewed nuclear threats emerge in current conflicts — several U.S. Catholic bishops will travel ...

The first successful circumnavigation of the Earth, begun by Ferdinand Magellan and completed by Juan Sebastián Elcano, ...

Sohei Kamiya's Sanseitō Party won 14 seats in Japan's Upper House elections, appealing to young voters with a "Japanese first ...

Japan made the quarterfinals of the World Aquatics Championships for the first time, and Italy squeaked by China in women’s water polo.

“In the last days of the fourth world I wished to make a map for those who would climb through the hole in the sky.” That’s the first line of the poem “A Map to the Next World” by ...

By Brad Lendon, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — Japan is facing its most severe security environment since World War II as three potential adversaries in East Asia – China, Russia and North ...

TOKYO – Japan cautioned against China’s rapid acceleration of military activity stretching from its southwestern coasts to the Pacific, describing the moves in a new defense report Tuesday as ...

Japan is the only country in the world that legally requires married couples to share the same family name — and that creates considerable problems for scientists, according to a survey of more ...

NASA's newest astrophysics space telescope launched in March on a mission to create an all-sky map of the universe. Now settled into low-Earth orbit, SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of ...