This year we were lucky enough to experience two Christmases, in two countries, in one day. After experiencing Christmas in Japan (with the requisite KFC meal and Christmas cake), we boarded on a ...

Dozens of people soaked and splashed themselves in painfully icy cold water in a pool at a Tokyo shrine, adhering to Japanese ...

On Sunday, dozens of men and women braved the freezing temperatures at Tokyo's Teppozu Inari shrine, taking part in a traditional ice-water bathing ceremony to welcome the new year. Participants, ...

Meshack Odiwuor, a University of Nairobi student secured a prestigious two-year scholarship. He has shared his experience ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When I was growing up, my family, like so many others in the community I lived in, ...

As the sounds of taiko and fue — traditional Japanese drums and flute — began to fill the Miller Living Room gathering space ...

Many Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas in January, not December. In Lebanon, Christians say the holiday is extra poignant for them this year.

Nengajo refers to a special type of postcard Japanese people send to their friends and acquaintances as a form of greeting at the end of the year. This custom is quite similar to the tradition in ...

Many of these practices are rooted in culinary traditions that have become deeply ... those hankering after their favourite oily balls. In Japan, come New Year’s Eve, families typically gather ...

An annual anti-Christmas protest held by Japan's Revolutionary Alliance of Unpopular Men failed to materialise this year as the group didn't put in their paperwork. The long-running protest ...

Breaking a longstanding tradition, Samuel Chatto, the grandson of Princess Margaret, invited his girlfriend Eleanor Ekserdjian to the Royal Christmas ... with Japanese porcelain master Yagi ...