Steve Lee Hayes had carved letters onto a pillar of a gate of a shrine in Shibuya and was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of ...

From apple pie on Thanksgiving Day to Johnny Appleseed stories passed down for generations, the apple has been a symbol of American culture. But the first apples actually originated halfway around the ...

OSHU CITY, Japan (AP) — Signs around Shohei Ohtani’s hometown in northern Japan proclaim him “The Pride of Oshu City.” They might need to add “World Series Champion” soon. Hundreds of ...

California has been written off as a woke wasteland. But it’s still inventing the future on a bunch of frontiers nobody’s ...

ALLENTOWN, PA. -- Volunteers with Trout Unlimited, Niagara Cares and the Arbor Day Foundation spent Thursday morning and afternoon planting 126 trees in Allentown's Bogert's Covered Bridge Park.

Takkii Ramen, specializing in Japanese comfort food, is opening a new location at 36 N. Third St. in downtown Easton. EASTON, Pa. — A popular Japanese dining concept is continuing to increase ...

Tokyo (Jiji Press)—Japanese real estate developer Mitsui Fudosan Co. and others on Monday started cutting down trees as part of their redevelopment plan for the Meiji Jingu Gaien area in central Tokyo ...

They object to the destruction of trees in a city that lacks green space and is seeing many parks handed over to commercial interests. The plan is backed by Tokyo Gov Yuiko Koike, who once was Japan’s ...

(AP Photo/Hiro Komae) Protest leader Satoru Osawa, right, a Tokyo resident, speaks as environmentalists hold a rally near the Jingu Gaien park district of central Tokyo, Japan, as property developer ...

TOKYO — Workers began cutting trees Monday in central Tokyo’s Jingu ... Yuiko Koike, who once was Japan’s environmental minister.