It is one of the "Ancient Capitals of Asuka and Fujiwara" for which Japan is seeking a UNESCO World Heritage listing. (Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Japanese government recommended on Tuesday ...

The Japanese government has recommended ancient capitals located ... and a session of the World Heritage Committee, to be convened in the summer of 2026, will discuss whether to approve the listing.

Mapmakers and teachers are re-thinking what to call the gulf of water between Mexico, the United States and Cuba after President Donald Trump ordered it renamed from the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of ...

The Japan Social Development Fund (JSDF ... The new results framework aligns closely with the World Bank’s corporate scorecard to better map, track and compare results across global sectors and ...

Aerial footage from the broadcaster showed at least 12 fire trucks were on the scene in the city, which sits to the north of Japan's capital Tokyo ... attention of the world as workmen repaired ...

funded by a loan of nearly $1 billion from Japan, in a bid to alleviate traffic congestion. Sometimes paralysed by some of the world’s worst traffic jams, Jakarta is home to more than 10 million ...

This dual protagonist approach to Assassin's Creed Shadows lets players see the world of central Japan ... When we traveled ...

Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward has reproduced a rare map from 1947 that shows how the postwar U.S. occupation of Japan had dominated ... was like two years after World War II ended. Republished to mark ...

Mr. Yasuhiro Umemoto, Executive Director of the Muko City Center for Buried Culture, explains that in Nagaokakyo, people painted human faces on earthenware vessels and floated them down the river ...

The UN had plans to build a city that would serve as its headquarters and the world's capital. A World War II Scituate spy base was key.

When aftershock data is available, the corresponding maps and charts include earthquakes within 100 miles and seven days of the initial quake. All times above are Japan time. Shake data is as of ...

They’ve been here for at least a thousand years, grazing on the city’s parkland, protected around the huge temples that trace the city’s illustrious past as the capital of Japan in the ...