Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga appointed Tetsushi Sakamoto to his cabinet as "minister of loneliness" in February in response to a spike in suicides.
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The Iron Sheik is a legend in the world of professional wrestling and played a big part in the growth and the success of the industry as we know it today.
If you wrote a thriller based on the story of Elizabeth Carmichael people would say the plot was too unbelievable. Oh, yeah—it's also the story of a car.
Fred Harvey set out to create a company that essentially became America's first chain restaurant and the epitome of service, while opening up western tourism.
With so many photos of the terrifying man posted all over the internet, many have been wondering: What's up with Richard Ramirez's nasty-looking teeth?
Female assassins have made it into the history, and they each have their own tales to tell, wielding guns, blades, or poisons against high-profile targets.
In 1847, the Duke of Praslin murdered his wife, and it brought down France's government the next year. This is the French murder that started a revolution.
Those of us hoping 2021 would be a great year got sad news when we were told that the pioneering French electronica duo Daft Punk had powered down for good.
The 1995 Tokyo sarin-gas attacks by the Aum Shinrikyo cult were horrific... and almost worse. This is the crazy true story of the Tokyo subway sarin-gas attack.
Even though the serial killer is a worldwide phenomenon, there's two countries that have given birth to way more of these inexplicably fascinating criminals.
Everything we known about radiation sickness came from experiments on uninformed people. Here's the crazy true story of human radiation experiments in the US.
Canada's Yellowhead Highway (also called Highway 16) earned itself the moniker 'Highway of Tears,' after a series of vanishings and murders along the route.
The most timeless of her recordings are those dealing with the realities of race prejudice in America, songs that reverberate with astonishing power even today.
With such a name you're already imagining that this Ivan guy was just an all-around awful person. And yup, he was. But he didn't come out the gate like that.
According to The New York Times, Johnson was born Wayde Douglas Bowles in Amherst, Nova Scotia. In his teens he moved to Toronto. He started out as a boxer.