Japan’s titans of the ring live and train at roughly 40 sumo stables, with the majority located in Tokyo. A visit to one of these grappling incubators will give you a closeup look at how these giants ...

The GO WILD TOKYO! series introduces eight experiences across the city’s western and southern reaches that showcase the ...

British Art in the 90s from the Tate Collection” is running until May 11 at the National Art Center, Tokyo in Roppongi. At ...

For residents and visitors to Tokyo, the closest isle worthy of the Cat Island designation lies in Kanagawa Prefecture, the capital’s neighbor to the south. Enoshima, which can be accessed from a ...

Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura, or Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees, began as puppet theater, but was adapted to kabuki a year later in 1748. Often simply called Yoshitsune, the play is based on the ...

Tales of the samurai are synonymous with swordsmen around the world, but in fact some of Japan’s most celebrated warriors were women. Technically, women couldn’t become samurai. But samurai was a ...

For the next thousand years, Japanese paper folding was largely restricted to religious ceremonial use, as paper was expensive. However, paper-making was one of the many industries that flourished ...

Aizuwakamatsu’s location has spared it from the plight that has recently befallen many other tourist destinations in Japan—overcrowding. It’s far enough away to deter most Tokyo day-trippers, yet not ...

AccuWeather looked at snowfall rates in cities with 100,000 or more people to give Toyama City (population about 415,000) the No. 3 position in the world, with an average 363 centimeters (143 in) of ...

在岛根县安来市的足立美术馆旁，有一家以海鲜及药膳料理闻名的温泉疗养旅馆——“竹叶”。旅馆的第三代老板娘（日文称“女将”）小幡美香，是位脸上永远挂着动人笑容的“和服美人”。

A view of the city from the castle ramparts. My connection to Himeji reaches back to the 1980s. My hometown, Adelaide, and Himeji forged a sister-city relationship in 1982. A Japanese garden, the ...

Kobe is home to some 200 pearl companies and an international port that dates back to 1868. In the port’s early days the city had a foreign settlement and a hall for traders from abroad. Japanese ...