(Mainichi/Tatsuya Fujii) OSAKA -- A death-row inmate's legal team has asked the Osaka High Court to nullify the defendant's withdrawal of his appeal against the capital sentence handed to him for ...

From being forced to compete in mecha-powered death games for the survival of their world to having to learn how to lie to avoid a life-changing debt, these manga explore human nature and morality.

A team of Palestinian and Israeli directors take a daring approach to the subject. But the Oscar-nominated film could not find a U.S. distributor. By Alissa Wilkinson Kristen Stewart and Steven ...

INAZAWA, Aichi Prefecture--Women officially joined a so-called "naked festival" at a shrine in central Japan on Thursday for the first time in the event's 1,250 year history, donning purple robes ...

Bacteriophages (phages) can devastate bacterial strains that are used in fermentations and bioprocesses. Comparative genomic analyses can be used to streamline the construction of genetic systems ...