In each city, we’ll hold a reception where guests can learn more about Nagano, with a focus on nature and food. One-third of U.S. tourists who visit Japan are from California, so this area is ...

Straddling four tectonic plates, Japan’s landscape buckles and ruptures ... Called Yanbaru, this UNESCO-listed national park area is home to endangered and endemic species including the ...

In today's fast-paced world, forest bathing, or Shinrin-yoku, offers a powerful antidote to urban pollution and sedentary ...

AN instructive physiographic map or diagram of Japan on a scale of about 80 miles ... The Inland Sea forms a notable area of depression in this zone.

Shikoku has a quiet, but profound presence in Japan's archipelago ... understand why people have been visiting for centuries. The area has long been a sacred spot for Shugendo (mountain asceticism ...

The company behind a new nature adventure park on Japan's southern island of Okinawa is hoping the country's huge tourism ...

Sakuragawa (Japan) (AFP) – When nature calls, Masana Izawa has followed the same routine for more than 50 years: heading out to the woods in Japan, dropping his pants and doing as bears do.

But you can give faeces back to nature so that organisms in the soil ... "Fundo-shi" ("poop-soil master") Izawa is something of a celebrity in Japan, publishing books, delivering lectures and ...