An immersive art space in the ancient Japanese capital of Kyoto is offering a novel experience to visitors from around the ...

A dwindling Japanese village has found a creative way to combat loneliness amid rural depopulation and declining birth rates. Ichinono, a community of fewer than 60 people north of Osaka, has been ...

Beneath my feet, the dark stone slabs of the Nakasendo road are worn and mossy. Travellers have trod this path for over 400 years, a thought that gives me goosebumps - or perhaps that’s just the icy ...

Japan formed its first centralized government during the Nara period (710–94) and adopted a legal system called ritsuryo, under which food items were paid as taxes. Now researchers have found ...

From tranquil temples to the bright lights of Tokyo, look at images that capture the “Land of the Rising Sun” Smithsonian Photo Contest Galleries Photographs selected by Text by Tracy Scott Forson ...

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