France

"La Maison en Petits Cubes," a picture book based on Kunio Kato's animated short of the same name, won the prestigious Prix Sorcieres literary prize in France.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. has traded 434 kilograms of its plutonium kept in France for the same amount of plutonium in Britain owned by a German utility.

An event in Paris on Sept. 20-22 will recreate five major tourist spots in Tokyo to give visitors a glimpse of life in the Japanese capital, particularly its “cute” culture.

Mamoru Hosoda's animated feature film "Wolf Children" hit the big time in France in 2012, where it ended up playing in 110 cinemas and reaching at least 100,000 moviegoers,...

Japan and France are at odds over a French company’s sales to China of a cutting-edge helicopter landing system that Japan fears will be deployed around the Senkaku Islands.

NTT Docomo Inc. said Feb. 19 it will start sales in June in France of a redesigned version of the Raku-Raku (easy-easy) Smart Phone F-12D, targeted at seniors.

In the hostage crisis at a natural gas plant in Algeria in northern Africa, local troops stormed the facility for rescue operations. Much information remains unconfirmed, but...

A troupe of performers whose average age is 74 has landed its first overseas gig.

Mitsubishi Corp. announced Jan. 7 that it has acquired a 50 percent stake in the Toul–Rosieres solar power plant from EDF Energies Nouvelles (EDF EN) in northeastern France.

GEVREY-CHAMBERTIN, France--Life in this French village revolves around wine. The backyards of its tidy houses nurture the grapes that have made Burgundy famous the world over....

In the village of Lubocino in northern Poland, grasslands and fields are spread out on a continuously undulating plain. Cows stand around on the roadside, while chickens dart...

A beam of light shines through the darkness, revealing the silhouette of a man wearing a hat low over his eyes and smoking a cigarette.

REIMS, France--The late Ecole de Paris artist Tsuguharu Fujita (Leonard Foujita) hoped his works would not be scattered and lost, and wrote in his diary, “if possible, I want ...

Japan has reacted angrily to a French television host who showed a composite picture of national team goalkeeper Eiji Kawashima with four arms and made a joke about the...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia--Norodom Sihanouk, the revered former king who was a towering figure in Cambodian politics through a half-century of war, genocide and upheaval, died on...