TOYAMA--Japan’s last fleet of trolleybuses will ... beloved trolleybuses that have carried millions of tourists on the Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route since 1996, Tateyama Kurobe Kanko Co.

Open from April to November, The Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route, often called the "Roof of Japan," is a spectacular journey through the Northern Japan Alps, spanning Toyama and Nagano prefectures.

Once believed extinct in the Central Japan ... Alps. Environment Ministry officials on Aug. 10 airlifted six adult rock ptarmigans and their 16 chicks by helicopter to near the summit of Mount ...