open image in gallery Tourists outside the Fuji Subaru Line 5th station, which leads to the popular Yoshida trail for hikers climbing Mount Fuji (AFP via Getty Images) At the Japan Tourism Agency ...

Mt. Kinpu, a 2,599-meter high mountain that straddles Yamanashi and Nagano Prefectures, is known as one of Japan’s “100 famous mountains.” An old trail called the Mitakekodo runs over the mountain.

The NBA never fails to bring drama every season, and things are off to a heated start early in the 2024-25 campaign, thanks to Jimmy Butler, Pat Riley and the Miami Heat. Butler has been suspended ...

SAPPORO, Japan -- Nestled along a picturesque canal in Otaru, a historic port town in Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost main island, is a building with weathered brick walls and green-framed windows ...

There are many alternative ways to experience central Japan’s sacred peak without the ... Every year, around 220,000 people come to climb Mount Fuji, mostly packed into three hectic months ...

Japan is staring down a demographic cliff. The population has shrunk for 15 straight years, with births hitting a record low of 730,000 last year and deaths a record high of 1.58 million.

Japan Airlines said it scrapped 42 flights, affecting 6,398 passengers, by early afternoon, all of them services to and from the northernmost island of Hokkaido ... snowcap of Mount Fuji was ...

As 2024 nears its end and we look back on the year in entertainment, it was clearly one when Japan-related works loomed large on the global market. It is a diverse group of works. Some were made ...

A central Japan city at the foot of Mount Fuji has lost more than a month’s worth of winter days per year in the past decade due to global warming, a recent study by a US-based climate research ...

Semiconductors, bears and trains were just some of the major news topics in Hokkaido this past year, and are expected to continue to dominate local news coverage in 2025. Here’s a brief rundown ...

HOKKAIDO, Japan -- It is every skier's dream, cutting through knee-deep powder in virgin, untracked snow. I float down the mountain smiling, whooping and bouncing from one turn to the next in a ...

Fuji is now measured to be at an elevation of 3,775.56 meters, 5 centimeters higher than previously recorded, resulting in Mt. Fuji being slightly taller, according to the Geospatial Information ...