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The next generation of professional wrestling is already in peak position to be future faces of sports entertainment. Last year, ESPN took on the unique task of highlighting the top young stars across ...

You’ve spoken a lot about how Shogun was a dream culmination of your 50-year career in Hollywood and the Japanese film industry. Now that your dream has come true, what’s driving you?

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Sir Lady Java stood up to police harassment as a star in the Los Angeles nightclub scene of the 1960s. Friends hope to honor her legacy with a biopic film and other honors. Sir Lady Java ...

Eastern tree frogs living near the site in northern Ukraine were later revealed by a 2022 study to have black instead of green skin. Now scientists studying the frogs have found that they live ...

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In many ways, Melania Trump was a traditional first lady. She wore a ball gown to the inauguration and donated it to the National Museum of American History's "First Ladies" exhibit. She took up ...

Ms. Yamazaki is a documentary filmmaker. What makes Japanese people distinctively Japanese? For me, the key lies in what we are taught during our elementary school years. Children as young as 6 ...

The amphibians are at the mercy of mining operations that are destroying their ecosystems, but local communities throughout South America are fighting back In Ecuador, a glass frog from a new ...