Hinohara Village lies at Tokyo’s western edge, with forests covering roughly 90 percent of its land. Despite being only about ...

About an hour by train from Shinjuku, the Nishitama area of western Tokyo opens into gentle valleys with clear rivers and ...

Roughly 1,000 kilometers south of the capital—24 hours by ferry—the Ogasawara Islands are a UNESCO World Natural Heritage ...

Kodaira lies near the heart of Tokyo’s North Tama area, where the legacy of water and greenery still runs deep. At the center ...

A remarkable exhibition spotlighting the pioneering fashion designer Hanae Mori is under way at Iwami Art Museum in the ...

Tochigi Prefecture deserves to be on every traveler’s wish list. Just two hours by train from Tokyo, it is blessed with ...

Tomoe Gozen (1157?-1247?) was an onna-bugeisha (女武芸者, female martial artist) who served Minamoto no Yoshinaka during the Genpei War (1180-1185). Before the samurai became a formalized caste in the Edo ...

One reason why ichiju-sansai is so beloved by Japanese people is how healthy it is. This set menu allows people to eat rice for energy-giving carbohydrates and soup for hydration, while the nutrition ...

For residents and visitors to Tokyo, the closest isle worthy of the Cat Island designation lies in Kanagawa Prefecture, the capital’s neighbor to the south. Enoshima, which can be accessed from a ...

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https://www.amazon.com/Great-Mirror-Male-Love/dp/0804718954 The relationship was both physical and psychological, as mentioned in Cartographies of Desireby Gregory M ...

Meiji Jingu (明治神宮) enshrines the spirits of Emperor Meiji and Empress Shoken. Standing within a man-made forest in the heart of Tokyo, the strongest power spot here is said to be Kiyomasa's Well ...