To support struggling families and encourage population growth, free school lunch programs have risen dramatically across Japan ... free school lunches to all students in public elementary ...

The ebullient thrum of staccato snares, thumping sousaphones, and tramping shoes all acting in unison filled ... in the Pasadena procession, the Japanese school will mark its third appearance ...

Two thousand fans piled into their seats at Stanford University's baseball stadium in Palo Alto, filling the grandstands and ...

What it’s about: By his wife’s suggestion, a hardened war general aspires to assume leadership of his kingdom, as part ... all exist in the same genre? That, indeed, is what makes Japanese ...

A man who attacked a Japanese mother and child with a knife and killed a Chinese bus attendant who tried to defend them has been sentenced to death. Zhou Jiasheng, 52, was found guilty of murder ...

The boy, a 10-year-old Japanese national born to a Japanese father and a Chinese mother, was stabbed on his way to school on a morning in September last year. He died the following day.

Plenty of Japanese use the mosque to pray, officials said. “We hope to make this mosque a place that all Muslims feel free to visit,” said Herizal Adhardi, a 46-year-old Indonesian who heads ...

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The Kyoto Tachibana Senior High School Green Band rehearses for the upcoming Rose Parade in the parking lot at Angel Stadium in Anaheim recently. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times) ...

Japan's national ... occasion for the whole school as student cheering squads wave flags, bang drums and roar on their teams in a spectacle of noise and colour. "All the teams are at a similar ...

In September last year, a 10-year-old Japanese schoolboy was killed in a second knife attack near another Japanese school in the southern city of Shenzhen. The trial in that case was due to begin ...