Snowboarders and skiers in Hokkaido, Japan, climbing up the slope of a mountain as others wait in a long line for cable cars amid heavy snowfall. Video credit: @572873083 via RedNote ...

And with that, my ‘off the beaten track’ tour around central Japan with a group of strangers began, a little more intimately ...

Meditation is central in both Indian and Japanese hermit traditions, serving as a means to transcend ordinary consciousness ...

People along the Sea of Japan coastline and those living inland toward the mountains are bracing for the possibility of ...

Writer Hannah Kirshner first moved to Yamanaka Onsen to better understand its craft culture. Almost 10 years later, she’s ...

Osaka Prefectural Police arrested a 28-year-old man on Feb. 3 on suspicion of abandoning a dismembered body found in a ...

Three Israelis, snowboarders, got stuck Monday evening in Japan's Hida Mountains, near the town of Hakuba. The boarders deviated from their route and have been stuck for over 12 hours. Night fell ...

(photo credit: EMBASSY OF ISRAEL IN JAPAN) Three young Israeli snowboarders were rescued on Tuesday after being stranded in the Hakuba Mountain range in central Japan while suffering from ...