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A large mural depicting a leader waving to a crowd, surrounded by people holding flowers and celebrating.
Religion
North Korea’s complex relationship with its Christian past
11:00
A person in a military uniform with several medals and insignia sitting in front of a red background, appearing serious and focused.
Military
China’s stunning military purge
9:44
Two individuals exploring a rocky cave, with ropes hanging from above, and sunlight illuminating the entrance at the far end.
Out of Eden Walk
Out of Eden Walk: The origin story of the human species is still being written
7:40
Arts
Tattoo artists in South Korea anticipate lifting of restrictions with mixed emotions
4:53
Foreign policy
In South Korea, it’s getting harder to push for human rights in North Korea
5:43
Out of Eden Walk
80 years after atomic blast, Hiroshima’s trees still tell the story
7:21
Sacred Spaces
Tibetans in Massachusetts celebrate 14th Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday
5:33
COVID-19
Here’s what to know about the new COVID variant ‘razor blade throat’
6:59
Out of Eden Walk
Out of Eden Walk: Getting by on the generosity of strangers
7:30
Out of Eden Walk
Recycled whirligigs remain a fixture in the Japanese countryside
7:24
Out of Eden Walk
Out of Eden Walk: An eerie walk through Japanese ghost towns
6:03
Out of Eden Walk
Out of Eden Walk: Record-breaking heat in Japan is hurting rice farms
7:18
Out of Eden Walk
Out of Eden Walk: Cellophane oasis
3:47
Out of Eden Walk
Out of Eden Walk: South Korea’s Mud Mausoleum 
7:28
Out of Eden Walk
Out of Eden Walk: South Korea’s love motels
3:28
Japan in Focus
In Japan, an automotive light bulb manufacturer pivots to growing mushrooms 
5:11
Japan in Focus
Nobuko Oshiro: Okinawa’s only female karate grandmaster
3:55
Out of Eden Walk
Out of Eden Walk: Walking the DMZ
7:32
Study abroad and beyond
One American student’s love for Japan
5:54
Out of Eden Walk
Out of Eden Walk: An untold history of the US presence in Korea
7:28
Out of Eden Walk
Out of Eden Walk: Among the tea pickers and plantations in Sichuan, China
7:40
Out of Eden Walk
Out of Eden Walk: Walking through western China
8:09
Japan in Focus
Japan awakens for the global art market
5:13
Japan in Focus
Japan’s oldest village tries to attract new, younger residents
8:03
Darjeeling is nestled amid lush tea gardens and overlooking the snow-capped Himalayas in India’s northeast. But landscapes like these pose challenges while conducting elections.
Elections
What it takes to pull off the world’s largest election in India
5:49
Politics
Women voters expected to play significant role in India’s general election
5:49
People walk past a board full of pictures celebrating AAPI heritage month
History
Students push for adding Asian American history to school curriculums across the US
Kazakhs protest what they see as excessive expansion of Chinese influence in Kazakhstan, including new Silk Road investments, in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Dec. 2019.
On China's New Silk Road
China’s new Silk Road traverses Kazakhstan. But some Kazakhs are skeptical of Chinese influence.
Military tanks pass by a building featuring traditional Chinese architecture.
Critical State
Misusing culture in international politics: Part I
black and white photo of three women and a man standing on stage
Immigration Rewind
60 years before BTS, the Kim Sisters were America’s original K-pop stars
A woman works out with apartment buildings behind her
How single women are driving gentrification in Hong Kong and elsewhere
Takuya Yokota in Tokyo in November 2017. He continues to speak out about North Korea's abduction of his sister in 1977.
Conflict & Justice
Japan could ease tensions with North Korea — if North Korea comes clean on its abduction of Japanese citizens
Trump meets with Jinping in China
Commentary
The next cold war? US-China trade war risks something worse
North Korean nuclear scientists cheer leader Kim Jong Un
Conflict
North Korea fires another missile, the ‘DPRK’s answer to the Trump administration’
Kim Craig has spent the past three years in Korea, hoping to get home to the US.
Justice
This woman has been stuck in Korea for three years trying to get home to the US
A Tsukiji shopkeeper prepares a basket of live eels for sale.
Business
Sadness prefaces the closing of the world’s biggest fish market, Tokyo’s Tsukiji
Health
This gay Chinese man passed on his HIV infection to his wife. But she doesn’t know that.
An artist ties himself with a rope that spells out "Kidnap" during a protest over the disappearance of booksellers in Hong Kong, Jan. 10, 2016.
Global Politics
China is expanding its pursuit of fleeing dissidents worldwide
Journalism students gather at Shantou University, in China's Guangdong province
Education
Bonus: Teaching China’s next generation of journalists to question everything
Drones help identify objects on Laos's historic Plain of Jars
Conflict
Drones allow access to a historic site in Laos that American bombs made off-limits
Actor Song Il Kook with his triplets, Daehan, Minguk, and Manse. They're featured on the Korean reality show, "Superman is Back."
Culture
Could a Korean reality show make men better fathers — and husbands?
Stay-at-home dad Wonhoe Bae with his two boys in their apartment in South Korea. He does all the childcare, meal planning, and manages the home.
Culture
What’s this Korean man doing in the kitchen?
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (C) poses with female delegates at the annual session of the National People's Congress (NPC) on International Women's Day in Beijing on March 8, 2015.
Justice
China detains female activists ahead of International Women’s Day
Women hold up signs during an International Women's Day rally in Lahore, March 8, 2015. Reuters/Mohsin Raza
Global Politics
What should the world do next for equal rights for women?
Kong Ning wears a wedding dress decorated with 999 face masks for her performance art work 'Marry the blue sky' as she poses for a photograph in front of the China Central Television (CCTV) Headquarters on a hazy day in Beijing November 19, 2014.
Environment
China quashes debate on viral documentary on air pollution
Child laborers in the Philippines
Justice
These photos of Filipino children working in mines and on sugar plantations will make you cry
An original 1971 Datsun 240-Z
Culture
Car-lovers mourn Yutaka Katayama, father of the classic ‘Z’ sports line
HK Nicaragua Canal Development Investment Co Ltd (HKND Group) chairman Wang Jing waves after attending a media conference in Managua December 23, 2014.
Economics
Chinese investments are pushing the Latin American economy back in time
Kikkoman Soy Sauce
Culture
Remembering the Japanese designer who was compelled to create something beautiful after seeing Hiroshima’s devastation
Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner walks on the carpet before a meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing February 5, 2015.
Culture
Argentine president in China to negotiate deals on ‘lice and petloleum’
Here is the Dalai Lama not meeting with President Obama on February 5, 2015, in Washington. Instead, he is shaking hands with Valerie Jarrett, a senior advisor to the US president.
Global Politics
Meeting with the Dalai Lama can come with a price
A man walks between a fallow rice field at Miyakoji area in Tamura, Fukushima prefecture on April 1, 2014. The area was finally opened to residents three years after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.
Environment
Riding the bus through Japan’s forbidden nuclear zone
Screenshot of the video message from the Islamic State, in which a man believed to be Kenji Goto warns that there are only 24 hours left to save his life and even less time for a Jordanian air force pilot Muath al-Kasasbeh, who is also being held hostage
Conflict
Under pressure, Jordan proposes prisoner swap with ISIS
Emmanuel Mudiay drives to the hoop during a high school game for Prime Academy in Texas. Mudiay is now playing in China and making seven figures instead of playing in college.
Sports
China, not college, could be the next finishing school for top NBA prospects
Protesters stand behind a photo of a victim of self-immolation during a 2012 march in New York City in support of Tibet.
Business
A prominent Tibetan activist thinks Facebook deleted her post to cozy up to China
Stuffed cat Meggy Weggy with her Unagi Travel tour group in Tokyo.
Culture
If you truly loved your teddy bear, you’d send him to Tokyo
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits the Korean April 26 Cartoon Film Studio in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).
Technology
When the Internet goes down in North Korea, there aren’t many to notice
US social media companies Facebook and Twitter are blocked in China, and looking for a way to break into the fast growing market.
Business
China’s Internet censor-in-chief gets a warm welcome at Facebook headquarters
A cyber security analyst works in a watch and warning center at a Department of Homeland Security cyber security defense lab at the Idaho National Laboratory.
Books
A huge intelligence screw-up turned the government and private companies into cyberwarfare partners
A pro-democracy protester carries a yellow umbrella, symbol of the Occupy Central civil disobedience movement, while gathering with other protesters at Mong Kok shopping district in Hong Kong on November 27, 2014.
Justice
Hong Kong’s leaderless protests may mark a new evolution in leadership