In 1914 the RMS Empress of Ireland was lost in just minutes after a collision in the St Lawrence River, making it Canada’s deadliest peacetime maritime disaster. This explains the collision dynamics, ...

The Bank of Japan moved to slow inflation as the prime minister is borrowing more to fund an ambitious effort to build up industry and support households. By River Akira Davis Reporting from Tokyo ...

Chris Mooney is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and a CNN Climate contributor. He is currently a professor of practice in the Environmental Institute at the University of Virginia. Bathtubs and ...

The Bank of Japan (BoJ) is expected to raise interest rates for the first time since January, increasing the policy rate by 25 basis points to 0.75% from 0.50%, according to Nikkei. The decision, ...

Japan issued a megaquake advisory Tuesday after a magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck the northern part of the country, causing 34 mostly mild injuries and some damage to roads and buildings. The ...

Maritime disasters are sadly not unusual, and UNESCO estimates that there are more than three million shipwrecks littering the ocean floor. Many of these ships hide ...

Eighty years have passed since Japan’s surrender ended the second world war. But the way Japan thinks about its wartime history is changing at pace. This is coinciding with a political shift that ...

On July 8, Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya and Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand signed the Security of Information Agreement (SIA) to enable exchanges of national security-related data ...

When most people are asked to name a famous ship that sunk, or a disaster that took place at sea, most will likely point to the Titanic, which famously struck an iceberg and sunk on its maiden voyage ...

Japan’s government, Church leaders, atomic bomb survivors and lay Catholics have welcomed the election of Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope and first Augustinian friar to assume the papacy, ...

The reluctant empress known as “Sisi” painstakingly crafted her image through portraits and photographs, ensuring she would be remembered in a specific way Based on a True Story Elizabeth Djinis - ...