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Located in Nagaizumi, Japan, this tiny park is the size of four pieces of paper—and it just set a Guinness World Record as the smallest in the world.

The record-breaking park features some grass, a seat and a decorative stepping stone. It's even smaller than Mill Ends Park in Portland, Oregon, which had held the title since 1971 ...

Japan is remembering the 105,000 people killed in a single night, 80 years ago Monday, in the U.S. firebombing of the ...

Oregon‘s Mill Ends Park is no longer the smallest in the world. The title now belongs to a park in Nagaizumi Town, Japan.

But one park in Japan is so teeny-tiny that it recently set a new world record. Located in the town of Nagaizumi roughly an hour from Tokyo, the park measures just 372 square inches, or 2.6 ...

It is still common that victims face difficulties in bringing perpetrators of sexual crimes to justice anywhere in the world. However, in Japan, I find a kind of “tolerance” exists for sexual ...