José P. Laurel was a Filipino lawyer, politician, and jurist, who served as president of the Philippines (1943–45) during the Japanese occupation during World War II. Laurel was born and raised in a town south of Manila. His father served in the cabine
Japanese Yokai can be cute. On the flipside, they can be utterly evil and scary too! Here are 15 deadly Yokai you’d never want to meet, within or outside of Japan.
The Vibal Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the Vibal Group of Companies dedicated to preserving and promoting Philippine heritage and culture, requested the use of images from this article for the book “Arts of the Philippines: From Prehistory to Now.” In 2019, Catherine Shin, a producer ...
During World War II, the Imperial Japanese Army played a central role in the Pacific Theater. They invaded several Asian countries and Pacific islands, including China, Southeast Asia, and the Philippines. Notably, their actions were characterized by aggressive expansionism and brutal tactics. What ...
This is the first of the Giacomo Puccini opera metamorphosis that was famous, in which "Madame Butterfly" became the modern geopolitical argument to understand the culture. In this film, through love relations that really did not make sense between a French diplomat and the Chinese opera singer...
(Hidetoshi Nishijima), who discovers that his wife is cheating on him. But before he can confront her, she dies of a brain hemorrhage. Two years later, Yusuke has been hired to direct a new multilingual staging of an Anton Chekhov play he made famous in Japan, and encounters among the ...
China's world famous Terracotta Army attraction has been given a digital boost thanks to the Chinese web-based encyclopedia Baidu Baike, in partnership with the Emperor Qinshihuang's Mausoleum Site Museum. Chinese and Israeli colleges to exchange students for agricultural studies Shanghai Jiao Tong ...
The exceptions here are the Philippines, Malaysia and Korea. Filipinos hide the tooth in a special place and make a wish; Malaysian kids bury the tooth in the soil As you go further south in East and Southeast Asia, other motifs dominate, such as a sacred or fertility tree, soil or wate...
The oldest written account of the Yuki Onna is in Sogi Shokoku Monogatari. In it, the monk Sogi walked out of his house one snowy morning to see a beautiful, 10-foot-tall woman standing in the snow. Sogi tried to speak with her, but she vanished. The mos...
The oldest written account of the Yuki Onna is in Sogi Shokoku Monogatari. In it, the monk Sogi walked out of his house one snowy morning to see a beautiful, 10-foot-tall woman standing in the snow. Sogi tried to speak with her, but she vanished. The mos...