A crowd of people gathered Monday to participate in a year-end Shinto ritual in Osaka, western Japan, to laugh off all the bad memories of the past year. The annual event took place at Hiraoka ...

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BEIJING, Dec 16 (Reuters) - China's Communist Party must "turn the knife inward" to eliminate problems of discipline, including corruption, President Xi Jinping said, a new call to hunt down ...

My chef’s-knife collection is substantial. I’ve owned some since I moved out of my parents’ house a decade ago, I’ve received others as gifts, and I’ve tested quite a few for this story.

It still cleaned up nicely enough to cut a wedding cake when the caterer failed to bring her own knife. But I’ll confess: I will cheat on a knife in a sharp skinny minute. And I encourage you ...

TOTTORI—Space-related businesses hoping to do testing for a future lunar mission can do the next best thing back on Earth without rocketing to the moon. Tottori Prefecture in western Japan is ...

Anxious about carving, many home cooks have relied on electric knives, which promise to speed up and simplify the carving process. But do you really need to “go electric” to create the most ...

Just ask Takayuki Ikura, who heads Maimai Kyoto ... Rina Hashiguchi, 30, a company employee from nearby Osaka Prefecture, was glad she attended. “I was able to have time and space here all ...

The internal magnets span the entire width, allowing you to hang knives from end to end. The included block butter also earned some extra points; if you slather it on every few months, it'll keep ...