AOKIGAHARA FOREST, Japan (CNN)-- Aokigahara Forest is known for two things in Japan: breathtaking views of Mount Fuji and suicides. Also called the Sea of Trees, this destination for the desperate ...

Feb. 28 (UPI) --Firefighters from around eastern Japan have joined in the effort to slow the largest forest fire in Japan in ...

Conserving the forest enabled this traditional lion dance to survive. Tenjinzaki was one of the first places to be a focus of modern environmental conservation in Japan. The community has ...

TOKYO (AP) — Wildfires have hit several regions in western Japan, injuring at least two ... and burned 250 hectares (600 acres) of the forest. In Imabari, in the Ehime prefecture on the main ...

In December 2017, Logan Paul faced intense backlash for posting a YouTube video that showed the body of an apparent suicide victim in a forest in Japan.In Touch looks back at what happened in the ...

according to Japan Times. Local governments at one point ordered more than 3,000 residents to evacuate. Experts blamed dry weather and dried fallen leaves on the forest floor as likely causes of ...

Makino Mantaro, in the Japan Broadcasting Corp. (NHK ... the end of the last glacial period, and the forest today is primarily unchanged from 8,000 years ago. That was the Jomon Period when ...

TOKYO — Wildfires have hit several regions in western Japan, injuring at least two people ... and burned 250 hectares (600 acres) of the forest. In Imabari, in the Ehime prefecture on the ...

It is the worst forest fire in Japan since 2002. The fire is now approaching urban areas and evacuation centers, officials said. On March 1, three areas in the city’s Sanrikucho Okirai district ...

TOKYO - In the foothills of Mount Asama, one of Japan’s most active volcanoes ... ceiling windows to bring in views of the surrounding forest of Japanese maple, elm, magnolia and Mizunara ...