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 ...

Hamura City, along the middle reaches of the Tama River, is a compact municipality where people and water systems have long coexisted—and where diverse wildlife and human life still share the ...

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 ...

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Asahi Super Dry is Japan’s most popular beer, and is known the world over. A great tasting beer that accompanies Japanese food to perfection, the name of this beer says it all: Super Dry, a beer with ...

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 ...

If you're familiar with the way Japanese people abbreviate foreign words, you might be able to sound this one out. Puroresu is short for pro wrestling, and while there were a number of attempts to ...