The village has banned plastic completely. Instead of discarding plastic waste, villagers find ways to reuse and repurpose it ...

A STUNNED couple in one of Britain’s busiest tourist destinations came home to find a Japanese family sitting down to a ...

The modern Inunaki Village is less populated, and the original settlement is mostly forgotten. However, the supernatural stories linked to the area have kept their place in Japan's urban legend.

Shirakawa-go is famous for its gassho-zukuri farmhouses, which are more than two centuries old. These thatched-roof houses are built to endure heavy snowfall, making them architectural marvels. The ...

Read the following text, and answer questions 1-9 below: [1] Sightings of a very large bear in northwest Hokkaido have triggered alarm in remote communities that have become synonymous with the ...

Within the dichotomy of plan versus reality the film portrays Ogatamura Big Lagoon Village that was once planned within a huge reclamation project as a model farming village to grant food security ...

This tiny island on Japan’s western frontier has no chain convenience stores. Nature lovers can dive with hammerhead sharks and watch miniature horses graze ...

SAITAMA, Japan -- A drone delivery service operated by mobile carrier KDDI has successfully run a field test to a hard-to-reach Japanese village in hopes of improving logistics for isolated ...