The religious connotations of sake are evident at the brewery. The big cedar-leaves ball hanging under the eaves is a symbol ...

A symbol of Japan, the mountain called “Fujisan” used to be a place of pilgrimage. The mountain with its snowy top and near ...

A Japanese village struggling with a low population created life-sized dolls to mimic the feeling of a bustling society. The hamlet of Ichinono, which has less than 60 residents and only one child ...

A dwindling Japanese village has found a creative way to combat loneliness amid rural depopulation and declining birth rates. Ichinono, a community of fewer than 60 people north of Osaka ...

For centuries, Japanese artists and poets have been inspired by Mount Fuji's almost perfectly round form. The Fuji Five Lakes region at the foot of this UNESCO World Heritage Site makes a great ...

It's no secret that Japan is experiencing ... This fairy-tale village is a picturesque site with Gassho-style thatched-roof ...

Found in one of Japan’s heaviest snowfall areas ... On the last day of your stay in Gifu, visit the village of Shirakawago, the UNESCO World Heritage site where you will see the traditional ...

JAPAN threatened to cut funding to Unesco after the heritage body added Chinese documents on a 1937 massacre to its Memory of the World archive. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said there was a ...

KYODO — An advisory panel to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) has recommended Japan's traditional knowledge and skills for making sake and "shochu ...