OSAKA – The throngs of visitors, including foreigners, at the Kansai Pavilion at Expo 2025 is a welcome sight for Naoto Kawasaki, director of tourism promotion at the Shiga prefectural government.

OSAKA – The Philippines opened its pavilion at Expo 2025 on April 13, welcoming a wave of visitors eager to experience one of the most anticipated national exhibits of the year.

TOKYO – For decades, they lived in silence across the Philippines. Elderly people born of wartime unions between Japanese fathers and Filipino mothers, abandoned by history, and invisible to policy. Now, for the first time, Japan is extending a hand to bring some of them home.

TOKYO – Across Japan, Catholic faithful, government leaders, and survivors of wartime atomic bombings are mourning the death of Pope Francis, who passed away April 21 at 88 from a stroke and heart failure.