Smithsonian writer Rachel Ng, who reported on the endeavor. A transcript is below. To subscribe to “There’s More to That,” ...

The Penn Japanese Language Program invited students from Penn, the Community College of Philadelphia, and Lower Merion High School to tour the Shofuso Japanese House and Gardens on Friday.

Japan’s parliament, the Diet, voted this week to make public high school free for all children. Tuition fees had been ...

Students at Olathang Primary School in Paro will no longer have to endure the harsh elements during assemblies or extracurricular activities, thanks to a new multipurpose hall funded by donors and the ...

Missing for decades from the Anglophile version of its origin story was another great visual narrative tradition, of the East ...

In honor of his mother and others imprisoned at the internment camp, baseball player Dan Kwong has restored a diamond in the ...

Democrats are using town halls to go on offense against their Republican counterparts as the party scrambles to capitalize on a weak point: GOP lawmakers taking heat for President Trump.

On the ground, the fashion landscape is changing. Japan’s luxury fashion market has remained largely robust despite a wider downturn, though Japanese tourists are travelling abroad much less than they ...

Republican leaders have cautioned lawmakers against in-person town halls, contending without offering evidence that paid activists were disrupting events. Michigan Rep. Lisa McClain, a staunch ...

Former vice presidential candidate Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn., is hosting town halls in Republican-held congressional districts in Iowa and Nebraska, following reports that the National Republican ...

Democratic committees are set to host town halls across the country to target vulnerable House Republicans ahead of the 2026 midterms. The effort, which has been dubbed “People’s Town Halls ...