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The Center for Strategic Communication and Information Security pursues efforts to provide a brief explanation to foreign ...

Asian shares were mostly higher Thursday in thin post-Christmas holiday trading, while oil prices rose. Japan's Nikkei 225 ...

In a lively video, a group of ISKCON followers in Shibuya, Tokyo, chant Hare Krishna to the tune of Jingle Bell.

U.S. President Joe Biden said on Wednesday he had asked the Defense Department to continue its surge of weapons deliveries to ...

Celebrating Christmas in Japan for the first time? You’ll soon come to find that there are several key differences between ...

For millions of people in Japan, the perfect Christmas dinner is a good meal from KFC. Yup. You’re reading that correctly.

For many people in Japan, KFC is central to their Christmas celebrations. Every year at Christmas, 3.5 million Japanese ...

Christmas is celebrated in many different places around the world, and some of this holiday's traditions are fairly unknown ...

Visitors gathered at Tokyo's Sunshine Aquarium to watch Father Christmas swim with the flightless birds on Tuesday (December ...

Japan’s most-followed religion is Shintoism, with less than 1% of its population being Christian. And yet, the nation ...