A Japanese government-appointed council of experts will review the country’s landmark apology to “comfort women”—those whom the Imperial army forced into sex slavery during World War II. This will definitely go well.

Burmese opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi has backed the government’s attempts to persecute the Rohingya minority and ban inter-faith marriages.

Splitting California into six states doesn’t stand a chance in the state legislature or Congress, but venture capitalist Tim Draper’s effort to put the question before voters isn’t as farcical as it may seem.

Detroit’s new bankruptcy proposal is much more favorable to pensioners than bondholders, but it is still drawing fire from both sides. Will the city’s divide-and-conquer strategy work?

The Trans-Pacific Partnership is on the brink of failure in both Japan and the United States. Can PM Abe and President Obama win over the naysayers, some of whom come from their own parties?

A new recording purports to show Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan telling his son to hide millions of dollars stashed in his house. A host of conspiracy theories and scandals is now circling the PM, who is responding with wild theories of his own.

“Damage Control,” a new show at the Hirshhorn museum, explores the death drive, the beauty in destruction, and the aftermath of the Cold War.

Shuttered libraries, deserted rec centers, and streets in desperate need of repair: The Blue Civil War’s toll on San Jose, California, is plain for all to see.

China’s People’s Daily has released a video game that allows users to shoot images of Japanese war criminals.

A recent Pew poll found that a huge majority of Indians are dissatisfied with the current government, and that many would choose the right-wing, Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party to lead the next government.