Mount Yoshino offers a good (and beautiful) reason to get out of Tokyo and Kyoto and venture off the beaten path.

Mount Yoshino is located within Yoshino-Kumano National Park, about 55 miles southeast ... most iconic places to participate in hanami in Japan. The five-mile-long mountain ridge that encompasses ...

Japan is home to 27,000 hot springs sources, but overtourism has reduced some of the country’s onsen water supply to a record ...

Wildfires have hit several regions in western Japan, injuring at least two people, forcing dozens of residents to evacuate and damaging homes as hundreds of firefighters battled the widening blaze in ...

The spiciest ramen is served in a black bowl. Japan’s favorite comfort food comes in various guises. Some ramen aficionados give top rank to Hakata ramen in Fukuoka for its combination of pork ...

TOKYO — A tiny park in the town of Nagaizumi in Shizuoka Prefecture has been officially recognized as the smallest park in the world by the Guinness World Records. A certificate ceremony was ...

The Embassy of Japan in the Philippines' Second Secretary Tomoaki Matsushige attended on March 10 the turnover ceremony for the project for the construction of the Grace Park Health Center in Caloocan ...

It turned out the park was smaller than the world’s previous record holder, Mill Ends Park in Portland, Oregon, which is 0.29 square meters. THE JAPAN NEWS/ASIA NEWS NETWORK ...

The honor now belongs to a town called Nagaizumi in Japan, located just over an hour southwest from Tokyo. 7 weekend events, from Portland Seafood and Wine Festival to Mardi Gras Ball Their park ...

The world’s lowest interest rate is no longer in Japan but Switzerland after the Swiss National Bank cut rates by a quarter-point on Thursday. The SNB took its key rate down to 0.25% ...

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TOKYO (AP) — For two days in Japan, it's the Hanshin Tigers who have have looked like the class of the National League. In another sign that Japanese baseball has never been better, the Tigers ...