During Japan's Kofun Period (250–538 AD), no fully centralized imperial state governed the archipelago, but a powerful Yamato polity was gradually consolidating authority over much of western Japan.

Brazil's embattled sugar and ethanol producer Raizen (RAIZ4.SA) said it has secured sufficient backing from creditors and bondholders to proceed with an out-of-court restructuring totaling ...

In November 1944, USS Archerfish encountered a Japanese warship so large that her commander could barely identify it through ...