George Takei speaks to reporters in front of a blue backdrop.

‘Star Trek’ actor recalls boyhood detention during WWII in camp for Japanese-Americans

George Takei was among the tens of thousands of Japanese-Americans on the West Coast whom President Franklin Roosevelt ordered removed to inland camps after Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941.

After-school clubs in Japan offer stress-free, supportive spaces

How you act, whom you can hang out with, what you can wear and when you can wear it, whether it’s cool to be athletic — today’s girls are bombarded from an early age with the pressures of, well, being girls.

What’s harder than a 3-point turn? Renewing a driver’s license while overseas

What’s harder than a 3-point turn? Renewing a driver’s license while overseas

Pacific exchanges hit or miss for popular toys

A lot of children on U.S. bases across the Pacific could wake up Christmas morning to some of the hottest selling toys in America.

McGovern blasts Muskie over statement on black running mate

Sen. George McGovern, D-S.D., said Saturday he was "startled and surprised" by statements by Sen. Edmund Muskie that he would not have a black man for a running mate in next year's presidential election.

Inflation is called a world problem

World Bank President Robert S. McNamara said here Saturday that the world's current economic crisis would not adversely affect either the interest rates at which the bank would borrow or lend money, or the availability of funds to the bank.

When it comes to balancing bottles, he's the best

Bob Adams was looking for something different ... something that really was his "own thing."