Japan has made big steps in accessible travel, one expert says, while bodies like Accessible Japan and TokudAw help those ...

For the people I spoke to, retirement is understood as an opportunity to live a life for themselves, leading to a journey of ...

One of Japan's most popular tourist attractions is once again donning its famed snowcap. The tiny satellite built in Japan will test the suitability of timber as a renewable material in space.

Image Credit: AFP Ichinono: Riding his tricycle with cheerful abandon, Kuranosuke Kato is the only child in his tiny, depopulated Japanese village overrun by life-sized puppets. The two-year-old ...

With most of the population gone, residents of one village in Japan ... kids were encouraged to go somewhere else. “We’re now paying the price,” she added. Japan has the highest percentage ...

The small population of a village in Japan is now "outnumbered by puppets" - after using ... stands on a scooter, ready to go. Another puppet girl in a red helmet is seen sitting on a bike nearby.

With most of the population gone, residents of one village in Japan have come up ... but the kids were encouraged to go somewhere else. “We’re now paying the price,” she added. Japan has the highest ...

By River Akira Davis Reporting from Tokyo The steady course of the Japanese economy and business environment that has helped attract a torrent of investment in the past two years could be undercut ...

"I seriously want to show that even a 'marginal island' can revive itself. I want to use manga, which is part of Japanese culture, to also attract foreign tourists to the island." ...

Village Pantry, located at 1831 E. 10th St. near Eigenmann Hall, operated routinely Sept. 25. But the following day around 4 a.m., the store closed for eight to 10 hours. After this, the location ...

This mountain village came into the historical spotlight in 1938 during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Under the national policy of “Man-Mo Kaitaku" (Manchurian-Mongolian Development) that ...