Quick summary Often playing second fiddle to Tokyo, Osaka, Japan, is currently having its own moment — no wonder the city, and the surrounding region of Kansai, earned a place on our 2025 list of top ...

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Wildfires have hit several regions in western Japan, injuring at least two people, forcing dozens of residents to evacuate and damaging homes as hundreds of firefighters battled the widening blaze ...

Sumo wrestling might be Japan’s national sport, but baseball is right up there in terms of popularity. And as of 2023, Hokkaido is home to what might just be the finest baseball stadium in the ...

Explorations through Japan in the wintertime are inflected with postcard-perfect scenes – triangular minka houses laden with snow, light-as-air powder trails on Niseko slopes, and steaming onsen baths ...

The original artwork was created by Deviant Art user “kvacm,” who specializes in sci-fi, fantasy, mountains, and other subjects. The wallpaper is available as a live, parallax wallpaper on Wallpaper ...

Vitrumanthus flosculus, with “flosculus” meaning “small flower” or “floweret” in Latin, was discovered on underwater mountain ranges called seamounts, south of Japan’s coast.

Caleb Wielhouwer, a photographer from the United States, traveled to Alaska for this photo of dusting snowdrifts and icy mountains. (all competition photos courtesy the artists, Microsoft, and ...

The two primary U.S. ski passes feature Japan mountains. Epic Pass includes 10 ski areas in the Hakuba Valley on Honshu, not far from the 1998 Winter Olympics host city of Nagano, as well as ...

The diminishing rural population, worsened by Japan’s demographic crisis as birth rates plummet, also mean “there are no heirs, there are no inheritors” to paperbush farms, he added.

Once the raw paper is ready in the winter, it’s sent to the Nepali capital Kathmandu and driven to the western Indian city Kolkata, where it’s brought by ship to Yokohama, Japan. After ...