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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.