Asia markets are mostly higher following gains on Wall Street driven by Tesla, IBM and Meta Platforms after strong profit reports. U.S. futures and oil prices rose. Japan’s core inflation ...

A gesture associated with the Nazis has a surprising history. But in Germany, there was little doubt about its meaning.

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One of the most famous and easy-to-remember symbols is undoubtedly the ‘OM’, or sometimes written as ‘AUM’. OM is said to be the sound that emanated when the Universe took its first breath ...

A presidential inauguration is traditionally a symbol of the traditions that bind Americans together. Mainstream media coverage of the event on Monday provided many reminders of what keeps people ...

Cúcuta, Colombia - January 19, 2025 The city of Cúcuta, bordering Venezuela, has become a symbol of the human suffering ... violence unleashed between the National Liberation Army (ELN ...

SINGAPORE – A record-breaking 691,100 Singaporeans visited Japan in 2024, said the Japan National Tourism Organisation’s (JNTO) Singapore Office on Jan 15. This marked a jump of 16.9 per cent ...

Visit the homepage for more information. One would be hard pressed to find a better example of a highly evocative national symbol than the Virgin of Guadalupe of Mexico. Like her famous Polish ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] TOKYO (AP) — Japan on Thursday ...

Australian National University's Australia-Japanese Research Centre director Dr Shiro Armstrong said Australia punched above its weight when it came to Japanese tourism. "The 50 per cent increase ...

Washing labels aren't always the most straightforward to read, and if you don't know what they mean you could end up ruining your clothes. Thankfully the symbols they use are (mostly) universal, so ...

Separate data from the Japan National Tourism Organisation showed some 36.87 million foreign visitors came to Japan in 2024, up 47.1 per cent from the previous year. December alone saw 3.49 ...