Japan's topography is more than 70 percent mountains, and famous peaks like Tokyo's Mt. Takao attract hordes of hikers for their natural beauty and historical sites. However, more remote ...

Since Japan sees the sun rise 16 hours before California, we fly backwards in time. Twenty-five hours in transit, leaving ...

In the last survey released in 1987, geographers counted islands with a coastline of 100 meters or longer on paper maps, according to the Japan Coast Guard, the author of the survey. The previous ...

In Japan, it is important to be prepared for disasters, such as earthquakes and powerful typhoons, and there is a lot of information available in English ... prevention map to check on river ...

Currently, the legal speed limit on ordinary roads across Japan is uniformly set at 60 kph. Introducing a new 30 kph limit on certain roads will require the National Police Agency to undertake the ...

The Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route, opened in 1971, has become one of the most impressive tourist destinations in Japan. This 23-mile road connects the cities of Tateyama in Toyama Prefecture with ...

Night - Scattered showers with a 75% chance of precipitation. Winds NNE at 7 to 8 mph (11.3 to 12.9 kph). The overnight low will be 72 °F (22.2 °C). Cloudy with a high of 71 °F (21.7 °C) and a ...

It took nearly 44 years for Iwao Hakamata, who was found guilty over a 1966 murder case, and his defense team to get a ruling for a retrial over a death penalty verdict finalized in 1980 — the ...

We recently received the following inquiry from one of our readers in Malaysia, so let me answer his questions here and provide some tips for motorcyclists from abroad regarding accommodations in ...

Kyoto, Japan in the spring. Experts say the best time to visit Japan is during the cherry blossom season from late March to mid-May. In Japan, fall foliage stretches late into the year ...

It is said that if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck. Something similar might be said of today’s Chinese economy. If it strikingly looks ...

Night - Scattered showers with a 71% chance of precipitation. Winds from E to ESE. The overnight low will be 57 °F (13.9 °C). Cloudy with a high of 69 °F (20.6 °C) and a 68% chance of ...