Last year, Japan started collecting entry fees of ¥2,000 (£10) per head from people climbing the famous volcano to limit the ...

In the retrospective of the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama at the NGV, we can see an aesthetic corpus grappling with the ...

The coastline here is as beautiful as it is battered, in a region that has traditionally seen few tourists. But that’s ...

First on any Sapporo itinerary is Odori Park, a sprawling park smack dab in the heart of the city. This outdoor attraction ...

A hand ablution basin for use at a Shinto shrine lay nearby. Many wartime Japanese military sites in the Northern Territories are located in areas where foreigners are strictly restricted from ...

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After winning their first World Series in 1955, the Brooklyn Dodgers traveled to Japan for a series of exhibition games. Two ...

The artworks, part of a new exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, help shed light on a traditional ...