Hokkaido, Japan, holds secrets beyond its renowned snow festivals and seafood delicacies. Come summer, the island blooms into a painter's palette of lavender fields, while heritage railroads ...

Mount Fuji, Japan’s pride and a powerful symbol of culture and landscape, has entered the new year with its snow cap missing, underscoring the worsening climate change. There is no snow in October for ...

Climbers using the most popular trail on Mount Fuji are expected to be slugged with a doubled ... to discourage overnight "bullet climbing," or trying to reach the summit of Japan's tallest mountain ...

New fences were erected Tuesday to prevent jaywalking in front of a convenience store in Yamanashi Prefecture that has become a popular spot for photographing Mount Fuji. The site in Fujikawaguchiko ...

The area, a popular photography spot because of how Mount Fuji rises behind the convenience store, has gained traction on social media, attracting a surge of foreign tourists. The fences are ...

Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost island, is renowned for its rich and creamy milk, a product of ideal climate, nutrient-rich soil, and generations of dairy farming expertise. This milk has become a ...

A town at the foot of Mount Fuji is taking another step to urge tourists to follow traffic rules. Camera-toting visitors are once again flocking to a local spot where Japan's highest peak appears ...

But another view reveals the site of Mount Fuji’s last confirmed eruption, which began on December 16, 1707, during Japan’s Hoei era. The image of a tranquil Fuji became enshrined in ...

A distraught Mason Mount suffered a fresh injury setback just 12 minutes into the Manchester derby. The Manchester United midfielder has been plagued by injury issues since joining the Red Devils ...

Mason Mount has suffered yet another injury setback, limping out of the Manchester derby on Sunday after just 12 minutes. The Manchester United midfielder went down off the ball early in the game ...

In September 2019, researchers visited the Northern Territories off the eastern coast of Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost main island, as part of a Japan-Russia expert exchange program. The team ...

(AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File) Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] BANGKOK (AP) — A quarterly survey by Japan’s central bank shows business sentiment has improved ...