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Tokyo may not have banana trees, but it’s home to one of Japan’s most beloved snacks: the Tokyo Banana. Wrapped in ...
Ancient history and sophisticated modern technology and innovation mingleseamlessly in Japan, so it is no surprise that when asking the question What isJapan Famous for the answers are a mix of the ...
You can’t visit Tokyo without seeing them. These pale-yellow boxes of individually wrapped bite-size cakes are emblazoned with images of the capital’s most famous tourist attractions and, sometimes, ...
Eighty years after Japan was defeated, a wave of Chinese films about the occupation are fuelling memory and anger.
King Charles and Queen Camilla stepped out in sync for a national Service of Remembrance on the 80th anniversary of VJ Day.
Sophie, the Duchess of Edinburgh got a surprising reply from Jim Wren, a 105-year-old Royal Marines veteran she met ahead of ...
Every state has that one sweet it proudly calls its own—the dessert that shows up at every bake sale, family gathering, or ...
In the ’70s, long before Kara Yoshimoto Bua was painting famous faces, she sat cross-legged on the floor of her mom’s bedroom ...
The AI said Taiwan is “a region” (地區) and “a province of China” (中國的省份). It then adopted the collective pronoun “we” to praise the holiday in the voice of the “Chinese government,” saying Father’s Day ...
Ex-fashion editor turned travel writer Lydia Swinscoe details some of the world’s most inspiring prints, fabrics, flourishes ...
Share giggles and gasps with a gloomy teen who is stunned to discover that her mum was once a teenager too, creep, crawl, ...