Asia

Chinese land where women still rule

03-06-2025

Chinese land where women still rule

Near the Tibetan border on the shores of Lake Luguhu in the Himalayas, a small Moso people live. The culture and way of life of the ...

Measurements of the length of skirts, forced haircuts and "cages of shame": everyday life in South Korea in the 70s

03-06-2025

Measurements of the length of skirts, forced haircuts and ...

We are well aware that North Korea is a totalitarian country in which the authorities control every step of their citizens and ...

Japanese Christian icons: the images in the interpretation

03-06-2025

Japanese Christian icons: the images in the interpretation

Christianity in Japan has got quite a long time — in the 16th century with the Portuguese merchants. The first Catholic ...

Miracle from Asia: 7 interesting facts about the Japanese giant salamander

02-06-2025

Miracle from Asia: 7 interesting facts about the Japanese ...

Do you like curiosities? So, you will definitely like this giant amphibian from the Land of the Rising Sun! This is a very strange ...

15 real photos of the Shah of Iran and his harem, which included almost 100 women

02-06-2025

15 real photos of the Shah of Iran and his harem, which ...

The harem seems to the European to be a kind of abode of young and beautiful women from the Arabian fairy tales “1000 and one ...

Fried wasps — the delicacy of Japanese cuisine

01-06-2025

Fried wasps — the delicacy of Japanese cuisine

For anybody not a secret that people in Asian countries are characterized by specific taste preferences. We have already told you ...

Grumpy rental: why young Japanese employ old people?

01-06-2025

Grumpy rental: why young Japanese employ old people?

The Japanese respect for elders is far not an empty phrase. Since ancient times in the country Nippon, I decided to listen to the ...

How is it that the most expensive coffee in the world is extracted from the excrement of a marten?

31-05-2025

How is it that the most expensive coffee in the world is ...

Tourists who have returned from Indonesia or the Philippines like to tell what delicious coffee they tried there. It is called ...

Crescent Lake — a Chinese oasis in the desert

31-05-2025

Crescent Lake — a Chinese oasis in the desert

Somewhere 6 km from the city of Dunhuang in Western China lies Crescent Lake — an incredible oasis in the Gobi Desert. In ...

Horned phenomenon: hundreds of deer in Nara Park gather every day at the same time

30-05-2025

Horned phenomenon: hundreds of deer in Nara Park gather every ...

An unusual phenomenon in the Japanese city of Nara attracts tourists from all over the world. Every night in the Park hundreds of ...

In the village of "Bound Feet" live the last Chinese women suffering from an ancient cruel tradition

30-05-2025

In the village of "Bound Feet" live the last Chinese women ...

In the women's village of "Bound Feet" in China, there are more than 100 women who are suffering from the consequences of an ...

Unconquered: The story of a Japanese partisan who fought for another 30 years after the end of the war

30-05-2025

Unconquered: The story of a Japanese partisan who fought for ...

Neither time nor political changes will break the spirit of a real fighter. A soldier who continued to wage guerrilla warfare in ...

The Story of Lakshmi Bai, an Indian Warrior Princess

30-05-2025

The Story of Lakshmi Bai, an Indian Warrior Princess

History knows many cases when women commanded armies or even led uprisings. In North Africa, the fearless Dahiya Al-Kahina became ...

Who is Chuchundra, or How Kipling's Translators Made a Mistake

28-05-2025

Who is Chuchundra, or How Kipling's Translators Made a ...

Since early childhood, we all know the story "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" from the collection "The Jungle Book". The ...

Amazing patterns of Asia in a simple and harmonious photos of RK

28-05-2025

Amazing patterns of Asia in a simple and harmonious photos of RK

Beautiful patterns in everyday life if you know where to look. Japanese photographer Resume Kosuge (Ryosuke Kosuge), known under ...

Faces of Asia

28-05-2025

Faces of Asia

Asia is a crazy variety of colors, culture, religion, flora and fauna. And it seems that photographer Maxim Russian is in love with ...

Unique erotic project "Women of the Sea" by Japanese photographer Iwase Yoshiyuki

28-05-2025

Unique erotic project "Women of the Sea" by ...

The photographs by Japanese photographer Iwase Yoshiyuki look like modern black-and-white shots of professional models. But in ...

How Mansudae, the world's largest leader factory, works

28-05-2025

How Mansudae, the world's largest leader factory, works

It is very difficult to name products that North Korea would export. And the point is not even that technology is poorly developed ...

Vietnam 1915 in color photos

28-05-2025

Vietnam 1915 in color photos

Today, many people have already discovered Vietnam as a new tourist destination, although for most this country remains almost ...

Garden Abe — the strange woman-killer in history

27-05-2025

Garden Abe — the strange woman-killer in history

On the Internet you can find many creepy stories about serial killers, violent maniacs and rapists. And every time I read similar ...

The enchanting beauty of Vietnam

27-05-2025

The enchanting beauty of Vietnam

Nguyen Vu Phuoc is one of the most famous and beloved photographers in Vietnam. He is the winner of numerous awards in the field of ...

Almost like in Japan! Secrets of cooking delicious ramen

27-05-2025

Almost like in Japan! Secrets of cooking delicious ramen

Ramen is a hearty dish originally from Asia, which has recently been popular with us. You can try delicious noodle soup in a cafe ...

Himalayan Lake Roopkund is a cemetery of 500 people, which keeps its secret

27-05-2025

Himalayan Lake Roopkund is a cemetery of 500 people, which ...

People have been talking about the existence of a mysterious Skeleton Lake in the Himalayas for hundreds of years. The shores of ...

Men in black: a new tattoo trend in Singapore

26-05-2025

Men in black: a new tattoo trend in Singapore

Tattoos are a specific thing: I like it today, but I don't like it tomorrow. It can be troublesome to remove a drawing from the ...

On the verge of cuteness and horror: Singaporean artist creates unusual miniatures

25-05-2025

On the verge of cuteness and horror: Singaporean artist ...

The artist from Singapore under the name QimmyShimmy uses polymer clay to create figurines of babies and sweets, in which fantasy ...

Bury Dinghy with my grandmother. The Japanese tradition of burial of Pets shocking

25-05-2025

Bury Dinghy with my grandmother. The Japanese tradition of ...

If you say in Japanese, the phrase "buried like a dog", then it is likely you will misunderstand. The fact that the Country of the ...