Poles in Japan form a small population of 1,510 (as of 2023), yet the largest Polish diaspora in East Asia. Most Poles in Japan are either from mixed...

primarily young Poles took up jobs abroad. Most Poles live in Europe, the Americas, and Australia, but a few Poles have settled in smaller numbers in Asia, Africa...

assistance in times of need. Both are members of the OECD, World Trade Organization and United Nations. The first non-clergymen Poles to arrive in Japan were...

overhead on utility poles as an inexpensive way to keep them insulated from the ground and out of the way of people and vehicles. Utility poles can be made of...

Games in 1896. Originally, poles were made of ash and from hickory wood. Bamboo poles were introduced in 1904, and both aluminum and steel poles appeared...

as a peace prayer. The idea of peace poles was first thought up by Masahisa Goi in 1955 in Japan. The peace pole project today is promoted by The World...

heritage or ethnicity. The majority of Poles adhere to Roman Catholicism. The population of self-declared Poles in Poland is estimated at 37,394,000 out...

designed walking poles similar to ski poles. Nordic walking (originally Finnish sauvakävely) is fitness walking with specially designed poles. While trekkers...

poles in the United States. In 1950, William Marvy of St. Paul, Minnesota, started manufacturing barber poles. Marvy made his 50,000th barber pole in...

identify two poles of inaccessibility for Antarctica: an "outer" pole defined by the edge of Antarctica's floating ice shelves and an "inner" pole defined...