In spontaneous street interviews, Japanese-Irish polyglot Yuji Beleza surprises passersby with greetings in their native language — whether it’s Turkish, Swahili, Kurdish, Kazakh or Zulu. His skills ...

Japanese climber Junko Tabei was part of an-woman team climbing Mount Everest. Despite almost being crushed in an avalanche, ...

Chosen to direct the world’s most important art show next year, she leaves a legacy of building institutions, uplifting ...

India was at war with Pakistan. It was a pitch-dark, silent night. The streets were empty, and electricity was cut off.

Despite the extraordinary feats of Tabei and many other adventurous women, sexism and misogyny in mountaineering have persisted for decades.

Ms. Kouoh had recently been named to oversee next year’s Venice Biennale. She died just days before she was scheduled to ...

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Rapper Vedan, famous for the track Kuthanthram Thanthram, was detained along with eight others in Kochi after cannabis ... cautioning young people about the perils of synthetic drugs, which ...

The skulls of three indigenous Ainu people have been returned to their ... An indigenous group who predominantly inhabit the Japanese island of Hokkaido, members of the Ainu community held a ...

“The project draft was floated well in advance,” he says. “People and even the panchayat members only started taking a closer look at it once football clubs and sports enthusiasts expressed ...

The smooth, matte finishes of well crafted wooden furniture found under the Coreo Hida-Takayama brand are already well known in Japan. The brand has opened its first showroom in Malaysia in The ...