Set in the dense forests of the Kii Mountains overlooking the Pacific Ocean, three sacred sites – Yoshino and Omine, Kumano Sanzan, Koyasan – linked by pilgrimage routes to the ancient capital cities ...

Japan's Niigata Prefecture, according to local reports. Local police reported that a group of three or four people had been caught in an avalanche in a backcountry area in the snowy mountains of ...

2025 Video taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a mountain fire near a Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force shooting range in Etajima in the western Japan prefecture of Hiroshima on Jan.

Juhyo had been found from Hokkaido to Ishikawa Prefecture, about 50 to 60 kilometers inland from the Sea of Japan. The farthest north was Mount Piyashiriyama, part of the Kitami mountain range in ...

An icy winter has transformed the tall trees of the Zao mountain range into wonderous snow sculptures ... Fu Shi-xiang, 31, who is from Taiwan and works in Japan, learned about Zao through ...