Fourth-year university student Aruha Hamamura begins and ends most days on his surfboard at Kounohama Beach along the coast of Mie Prefecture’s Shima Peninsula, an area known for the Grand …
In the summer of 1689, the poet Matsuo Basho left the port town of Sakata in Yamagata Prefecture and traveled north along the Sea of Japan. His destination: Kisakata, an …
“The clothing factory I saw the day after the disaster was indeed a sea of corpses. Those who died on the battlefield in a war were probably not as miserable …
NISHINOMIYA, Hyogo Pref. – Kanagawa Prefecture’s Keio High School ended a 107-year drought by winning the prestigious national summer high school baseball championship and dethroning last year’s champs Sendai Ikuei …
For the first time since 2019, Mount Fuji’s mountain huts are open for the normal climbing season of Japan’s iconic peak. Before you strap on your hiking boots, though, know …