A Japanese sushi restaurant bid 510 million yen ($3.24 million) for a single bluefin tuna on Monday (January 5), the highest price ever paid at the annual New Year auction at Tokyo's Toyosu fish ...
Bizarre images on wall of Somali-run Minneapolis daycare after AP were invited in to prove it wasn't a scam to defraud ...
By the time he died in October 2025, Marcel Weyland’s travels had taken him from Poland to the furthest reaches of the Earth, and back again. He had been honoured by the governments of Australia, ...
For more than thirty years, Indonesian families huddled together in front of their TVs every Sunday morning just to catch a ...
K-pop group BTS' comeback has an official date. According to a note shared to social media by the entertainment company ...
There were 36.8 million visitors to Japan in 2024, of which about 690,000 were aged four or younger. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Munetaka Murakami, the latest big-time Japanese free agent, is headed to Chicago at a price lower than anyone expected. The former Yakult Swallows third baseman reportedly agreed to a two-year, $34 ...
A new anime-themed restaurant, Otaku Japanese Cuisine, has opened in Pensacola. The restaurant replaces the former Nori Japanese Sushi & Grill on Nine Mile Road. The menu features creative items like ...
David Bowie’s bedroom could soon be London’s newest tourist attraction. The house where the musician grew from suburban ...
The Chicago White Sox have been looking for more power. They might have found an answer after landing Japanese free-agent slugger Munetaka Murakami. The Sox are signing the left-handed hitting ...
A former schoolteacher armed with a radio and a force of Solomon Islander scouts became one of World War II's most legendary coastwatchers, killing more than 50 Japanese soldiers and providing ...
Japan’s JAPEX has struck a deal to buy shale oil and gas asset owner Verdad Resources Intermediate Holdings for $1.3 billion, Reuters has reported, adding the company will finance the deal with a ...