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Ever notice when your friends come back from a holiday and they've put on a few pounds? Maybe they feasted on too many delicious baguettes in France or indulged in a few too many pasta dishes in Italy.

Many, many years ago during a lengthy argument with a friend he told me to 'give it a doubt' - he meant I was wrong.

WELL, simply put, this is an outrage. Not only is it an affront to all the surviving comfort women who struggled through years of scorn being called traitors, collaborators and whores, but it's also an insult to the people that were subjugated under the Japanese Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere during World War II.

Without increased immigration, whites would lose their U.S. majority in 2046, three years beyond official projections, and the nation's population would not reach 400 million until after 2060, a decade or more later than forecast, according to census estimates Wednesday.

A 2012 Pew Research Center Report, "The Rise of Asian Americans," identified Asian Americans as "the highest-income, best-educated and fastest-growing racial group in the United States." In addition, according to the report, Asian Americans are more satisfied than the general public with their lives, finances, and the direction of the country, and ... (more)

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's recent remarks on Japan's wartime behavior and Yasukuni Shrine, which enshrines some 2.5 million Japanese war dead plus convicted Class-A war criminals from World War II, will undermine the trust that postwar Japan has built in the international community.

Even though energy drinks forms the smallest category of soft drink consumption in Asia, one industry research company has hailed it as the most dynamic.

From time to time Japan's political leaders visit the Yasukuni Shrine where Class A war criminals are included on the list of remembrance, then make controversial remarks that deny or gloss over the acts of aggression that Japan committed in the first half of the 20th century.

We recognize Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month during the month of May.

Update: 3:17PM JAPAN is not always an easy market to access but the successful penetration of Heilala Vanilla is proof that Pacific products have an assured place in the 'taste buds' of Asians.

There was a time when the rest of Asia looked to Japan for fashion trends. While the French and Italians were known for sophistication and luxurious craftsmanship, Tokyo brought an edgy street style inspired by areas such as Harajuku and Shinjuku.

No matter what current beauty trends report about the top skin concerns for today, one thing will remain a constant: to maintain healthy, youthful looking skin.

More than a quarter of mainlanders are on track to be aged over 65 by the middle of the century.

Benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange was up 4.6 percent to $7,160 by 1105 GMT from a close of $6,848 on Thursday, its biggest daily increase since Nov.

One hundred years ago - on Feb. 25, 1913 - the Rev. Eduard Arndt and his family stepped off a boat in Shanghai, China, and then traveled up the Yangtze River to Hankow, where the hub of LCMS work there was established.

Keeping the fire stoked: Members of South Korean conservative civic groups prepare to burn an effigy of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on Thursday as part of a protest against visits by a record number of Japanese lawmakers last week to Tokyo's contentious Yasukuni Shrine.

SINGAPORE: Cardiologists in Singapore are leading the first large-scale study to identify genetic variations which may make Asians more vulnerable to heart failure.

There are two types of sweat glands - the apocrine glands that produce odor, and the eccrine glands that produce ordinary sweat.