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LATEST NEWS: Over 1,000 people dead & hundreds missing! 60 killed in major tsunami after 8.9 Japan quake AP | Mar 11, 2011, 06.34pm IST TOKYO: A ferocious tsunami spawned by one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded slammed Japan's eastern coast on Friday, killing at least 60 people...

THE gurdwara on Dongbaoxing Road is a south-facing two-story rectangular structure with red-brick walls. Old documents give an insight into the temple. "There are 19 stairs leading to the entrance of the temple with each step 2 meters wide. An arched wooden door leads to the inside of the...

NEW DELHI — At least 17 people were killed and several others injured in a collision Friday between a minibus and a passenger train at a railway crossing in India's northern state of Punjab, according to the Press Trust of India. More...

Reuters - They won't be leaping tall buildings in a single bound, but Japan's growing number of elderly may someday have a new lease of life that allows them to care for themselves -- and maybe even pump a little iron...

Sometimes, a walk through rural Japan may include almost as many encounters with vending machines and power lines as a stroll through central Tokyo. Unsullied landscape is rare, and few urban Japanese, let alone foreigners, would know where to find it...

My fifth-grade art teacher always wanted us to use our 6-inch voices, and I never quite understood what she meant. Now, though, I believe she must have spent some time in Japan...

Reuters - Filmmaker Steven Spielberg praised Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's "movie star good looks" on Monday, but nimbly dodged the question of whether the Japanese leader had a future in film...

As standards of history teaching are supposed to be falling around the world, it might be worth trying to captue the imagination of students of world history by presenting much of it in terms of romantic sounding trade routes...