Hop to the northeast and you can find an incredible cherry blossom tunnel in Japan! The Iwaki district is west of Hirosaki City in Aomori Prefecture, and located at the foot of beautiful Mt. Iwaki is ...

Planning your dream trip to Japan in spring for cherry blossom season ... beautiful weeping cherry blossoms and sits amidst the western mountains of Kyoto. ・Mount Yoshino (Nara): Mount Yoshino boasts ...

Mt. Kinpu, a 2,599-meter high mountain that straddles Yamanashi and Nagano Prefectures, is known as one of Japan’s “100 famous mountains ... According to statistical data from YAMAP, a mountain map ...

Japan is staring down a demographic cliff. The population has shrunk for 15 straight years, with births hitting a record low of 730,000 last year and deaths a record high of 1.58 million.

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Before the earthquake changed everything, 83-year-old Sueko Naka from Japan’s remote Noto Peninsula wished to live out her life at home, watched over by an altar to her ancestors, but a year after a ...

A marker near where Taylen and Wyatt Brooks were attacked by a mountain lion.Credit...Nicholas Albrecht for The New York Times Supported by By Malcolm Brooks On March 23, 2024, while walking down ...

As 2024 nears its end and we look back on the year in entertainment, it was clearly one when Japan-related works loomed large on the global market. It is a diverse group of works. Some were made ...

A central Japan city at the foot of Mount Fuji has lost more than a month’s worth of winter days per year in the past decade due to global warming, a recent study by a US-based climate research ...

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Night - Cloudy. Winds variable at 6 to 7 mph (9.7 to 11.3 kph). The overnight low will be 38 °F (3.3 °C). Sunny with a high of 61 °F (16.1 °C). Winds variable at 5 to 22 mph (8 to 35.4 kph ...