We will continue to call for the abolishment of the death penalty and continue our support for people under custody,” ...

The symbolism of cats in Japanese literature is deeply rooted in their culture. In Japan, cats are considered to be a symbol of good luck and fortune. Most of these portrayals of cats are drawn from ...

Her death was confirmed by the South Korean government ... the women forced into sexual slavery have been widely accepted as a deeply emotional symbol of Korea’s suffering under colonial ...

The founder of the P.K.K., a guerrilla organization that has been fighting an insurgency against Turkey for decades, has ...

From KISS to Ghost, there’s been a long history of ambiguous imagery in music. No band has used masks quite like Sleep Token, ...

Pan Macmillan; £18.99 The last eight months of the war in Europe were among the bloodiest and most destructive. Adolf Hitler ...

A pioneer in Japanese gastronomy in India, Kably reinvented herself at 45, training in Japan and launching Izumi in Mumbai ...

Including some very obvious callbacks to Metal Gear Solid ...

The toxic smog that settles over the Mongolian capital every winter has been a suffocating problem for more than a decade ...

Marines initially invaded Iwo Jima on Feb. 19, 1945, as part of the U.S. island-hopping campaign in the Pacific, and it took four days to gain the summit of Suribachi, according to a Department of ...

Fighting continued on the island until March 26, resulting in the injury or death of about 27,000 Marines and sailors. The brutal fighting also led to the deaths of 21,000 Japanese soldiers ...

Japanese artist Tomokazu Matsuyama will take ... Matsuyama’s compositions reflect a world in which cultural and commercial symbols loom larger than life. His paintings become perfect mirrors ...