Don’t expect raucous party scenes or over-the-top après-ski. In Japan, it’s all about the snow. Here’s a primer on where to ...

In the heart of the Japanese mountains, the villages of Shirakawa-go and Gokayama are home to treasures of traditional Japanese architecture: thatched cottages with sloping roofs, designed to ...

Hinohara Village is a quiet mountain community on the edge of western Tokyo, bordering Yamanashi and Kanagawa ... She studied performing arts at university and came to Japan to work as a dance ...

Visitors looking for the "real Japan" may find it on a new long trail two hours from Tokyo that shows off the country's ...

A research group from Hiroshima University has found an increase in bronchial asthma among children affected by the torrential rains in July 2018 that devastated western Japan, particularly in ...

Seasonal yellow dust is expected to arrive in western Japan from March 29 to 30, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. The agency confirmed the arrival of dust clouds in Hiroshima on the ...

Settsu, Osaka Pref., Jan. 28 (Jiji Press)--The western Japan city of Settsu marked the 50th anniversary this fiscal year since starting to give out its originally designed “randoseru ...

JR West, a railway company of Japan, has begun connecting online and ticketless booking services ‘Express Booking’ and ‘Smart EX’ with the route search on Apple Map. A user can book ...

Global View: The power that a rising and expanding America would inevitably acquire will be seen in Beijing and Moscow—and not only there—as a threat. Photo: Ju Peng/Alexander Kazakov ...

The Western genre is one of the oldest and cherished film genres to ever enter the landscape of cinema and successfully transitioned into the Talkies, only growing immensely popular among movie goers.