If you’re up late on Saturday and want to hear some powerful classical music, the St. Paul Civic Symphony will renew St. Paul’s sister city relationship with Nagasaki, Japan, by performing a ...

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito has paid respects to atomic bombing victims in Hiroshima as the city marks the 80th anniversary of ...

Emperor Naruhito has repeatedly stressed the importance to remember and keep telling the tragedy of the war to younger ...

On this small island in rural Nagasaki, Japan’s Hidden Christians gather to worship what they call the Closet God.

Nagasaki bobtails have their roots in the Dutch East Indies when the city was the only foreign port during Japan’s closed era in the 17th to 19th centuries. They hunted rats to protect shipments ...

Nagasaki is a haven for bobtails; past studies suggest that nearly 80 per cent of the city's cat population have bobtails. This is double the occurrence of anywhere else in Japan. Japanese cats ...

Nagasaki bobtails have their roots in the Dutch East Indies when the city was the only foreign port during Japan's closed era in the 17th to 19th centuries. They hunted rats to protect shipments ...

They are known as omagari neko (bent-tail cats) or kagi neko and have their own society of admirers and even a dedicated Shinto shrine. Their tails come in varieties including hook-shaped at the ...

NAGASAKI, Japan — In Japan, bobtail cats are considered good luck and Nagasaki is the place to find them. They are known as “omagari neko (bent-tail cats)” or “kagi neko (hook cats)” and ...

to a French Catholic priest in March 1865 in Nagasaki city. Many became Catholics after Japan formally lifted the ban on Christianity in 1873. But others chose to stay Kakure Kirishitan (Hidden ...