NANMOKU, GUNMA PREF. – The roadside stores and chain eating places regularly give option to lush hills and mountains as...

To Koki Goto’s aid, the clouds half by early afternoon and the Hamarikyu Gardens in central Tokyo are doused in...

There’s a folks story that has been handed down for generations in Ojiya, a small metropolis in Japan’s northwestern Niigata...

Carrying a blue, narrow-brimmed fedora and a white button-up shirt, his fingers shaking ever so barely, Koichi Kashiwa raises his...

Are folks in Japan blissful? Maybe not, in response to the newest World Happiness Report launched in March. The nation...

On an unusually balmy day in December, Koichi Karasawa and 53 volunteers for the City Hen Society of Japan gathered...

TOKIGAWA, SAITAMA PREF. – Aside from the occasional buzzing of automobiles passing by and the light chirping of birds, route...

Yuka Fujimura first considered quitting her job within the spring of 2020, when COVID-19 case counts soared and Tokyo declared...