The most common way to enjoy Goto udon in Shinkamigoto is “jigoku-daki” (literally “hell boiling”), which involves taking the ...

An intensive two-week program in Japan explored vital sustainability issues, the legacy of Hiroshima, and the importance of ...

A public high school in Hokkaido, which is in danger of being consolidated due to declining student numbers, plans to attract ...

Although Fukushima-based poet Ryoichi Wago missed ... Ben Shahn to a Fukushima museum planning a traveling exhibition in Japan. It was a time of heightened concern about radiation at home and ...

FUKUSHIMA--The Iinomachi district here has doubled down on its efforts to become the pre-eminent UFO hub in the universe. The International UFO Lab was founded on June 24 in the district to ...

From seaside towns in Kyoto and Okayama to ancient houses in Gifu, explore the timeless beauty of these Japanese villages.

Toyota’s futuristic Woven City, which is being built on the site of a former car factory in Japan, is almost ready for its first residents. At CES this week, the Japanese auto giant updated the public ...

Good luck booking a guide this spring, but travelers who are willing to try something new will find value in luxury hotels ...

Itooka was born in 1908 in Osaka and and had four children along with five grandchildren. Japan has over 95,000 people aged 100 or older. A 116 year-old woman from Japan, thought to be the world's ...

The epicentre was around 80 km north of Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain and a popular destination for climbers and trekkers. Asia Pacificcategory Tremors in earthquake-prone Tibet 12: ...

Gold outshined the chasing pack as only a handful of commodities sailed through choppy economic waters unscathed in a ...

It previously served as the former summer villa of the Kanin-no-miya imperial ... Tom-Ford-Inspired Smoky Eye Naoshima is arguably the most famous of Japan’s art islands and now there's even ...