If you’ve ever traveled in Asia, you may have been caught off guard by a symbol considered by most Western travelers as a sign of fascism. The swastika is an ancient Sanskrit symbol meaning “good ...

Admiral Kevin Lunday denied recent claims by The Washington Post that the service was removing the 'hateful' designation from ...

They finally realized it’s just not Reich! Japan will stop using a swastika on maps for tourists after complaints the symbol was offending foreigners. The symbol in question is not a real swastika, ...

If you’re a foreigner trying to navigate cities in Japan, you won’t find street signs and map icons particularly helpful. Take hospitals. Instead of the traditional H surrounded by a circle that would ...

LONDON: Europe may be forced into considering a continent-wide ban on the swastika, one of the oldest, most globally recognized but also most reviled Sanskrit symbols in the West. LONDON: Europe may ...

'On both sides of our cultural divide, it roused strong emotions that had very little to do with the language and its literature.' 'I felt Sanskrit had been removed from the realm of thought, and made ...

On the left, the temple symbol currently used on Japanese-language maps, and on the right is the proposed new symbol for foreign-language maps A Japanese proposal to stop using swastikas to identify ...

(MENAFN- IANS) New Delhi, June 19 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday thanked his Croatian counterpart Andrej Plenkovic for presenting him with a reprint of the first printed Sanskrit ...