Japanese officials burned alive or beheaded 55 missionaries and laypeople alike. The violence coincided with Japan's push to ...

Galactus will soon make his MCU debut in the upcoming film Fantastic Four: First Steps, which is pretty grim news for the ...

On an early September day in 1622, a large group of Christians gathered on a hill in Nagasaki, Japan, to bear witness. Dozens ...

we shine a spotlight on letters he wrote on death row in a four-part series. This is the first installment. The odds were always stacked against Iwao Hakamada. Prosecutors in Japan have a 99 ...

Together, these storms are known as kamikaze ("wind of the gods"), a term that would take on a more sinister definition during World War II when Japanese ... safeguarded from death but needed ...

Even in death, he is revered. "He is God," says a young man about Kitagawa on the streets of Tokyo. A lot of people in Japan feel the same. Kitagawa's funeral in 2019 was a national event.

Benmou Suzuki's dilapidated 420-year-old temple, located deep in the forest near a tiny Japanese mountain village, hardly ...

Your donation makes it possible for us to keep doing this important work, keeping you informed every step of the way to the November election A 10-year-old schoolboy from Japan was fatally stabbed ...

God of War has played with real-world mythologies in interesting ways, and its next saga could take this general creative ...

Two people have died in the Japanese city of Yokohama after a teenage girl jumped to her death from a shopping centre, hitting a pedestrian below. The 17-year-old high school student jumped from a ...

RIO DE JANEIRO--The Japanese woman whose body was found next ... on Friday indicated cranial trauma was the actual cause of death. The man, who local press has identified as Rafael Lima da Costa ...