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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 ...

To alleviate negative publicity, the government plans to quadruple the number of tritium-monitoring points in the ocean ahead of planned release of water accumulating at the crippled Fukushima No ...

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

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It previously served as the former summer villa of the Kanin-no-miya imperial ... Naoshima is arguably the most famous of Japan’s art islands and now there's even more reason to visit.