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A coastline-hugging hiking trail in northeastern Japan has been gaining acclaim with overseas adventurers, raising hopes it will bring a tourism boom to the area that is still recovering from the 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster. The 1,025-kilometer Michinoku Coastal Trail, which fully opened&#...

/PRNewswire/ -- Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia (SSFF & ASIA) proudly announces the short film screening in collaboration with the Embassy of Japan in...

Ice fishing tents are seen on the frozen surface of Lake Gando in Morioka in Iwate Prefecture, in the early morning of Wednesday, as the fishing season for wakasagi, or Japanese smelt, opened on the lake the same day.

AIKAWA, Kanagawa -- Surpassing international cities like Yokohama, this small east Japan town is the municipality with the highest proportion of non-J

Besides Japanese food products formerly unavailable in the U.S., Mitsuwa began offering ready-made foods, including the then-exotic sushi.

The three-block Brutalist edifice with its five-tiered peace pagoda is fascinating in all the right, aimless ways. The well-worn sixties-civic interiors, filled with electrically vivid colors…

MORIOKA--Noriko Sugiyama doesn’t quite get why others make a fuss of her art when she simply uses bits of old kimono fabric and obi sashes instead of paint to bring her works to life.

Women will take part in the <em>hadaka matsuri </em>in Inazawa, in which thousands of men dressed in next to nothing drive away evil spirits

Rest of World News: Japanese shrine's historic "naked man" festival welcomes female participants for the first time, celebrated as stride towards equality. Women can't jo

Fully clothed women will take part in hadaka matsuri, in which thousands of men dress in next to nothing to drive away evil spirits