As far back as the 14th century, the lush backyard of the contemporary Hotel Chinzanso Tokyo was called Tsubakiyama, or ...

Japan is home to 27,000 hot springs sources, but overtourism has reduced some of the country’s onsen water supply to a record ...

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Japan's tourism industry faces severe labour shortages as young workers abandon hospitality jobs for better pay and work-life ...

The land ministry has selected 26 model projects to promote a lifestyle in which people divide their time between rural and ...

With the number of foreigners working in Japan increasing, the highest increases are being seen not in urban but in rural areas, according to an Asahi Shimbun survey.

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In Japan, a smelly waste product is being reimagined as a potential clean fuel of the future that is powering cars and ...

This week, the United States Department of Education announced it was terminating nearly 2,000 of its roughly 4,000 employees—the latest move in what Secretary of Education Linda McMahon has called ...