Despite an overall decrease in Mount Fuji climbers this summer, Shizuoka Prefecture has reported a significant increase in ...

The Yamanashi Prefectural Government will consider raising the toll for Mount Fuji's Yoshida Trail, which was introduced this ...

Yamanashi Prefecture introduced regulations to reduce dangerous climbing, including nonstop “bullet climbing,” on the increasingly crowded 3,776-meter-high mountain. On the Shizuoka side of ...

Officials say the plan could help curb overtourism and generate billions in revenue - as activists worry it threatens the ...

Preliminary data showed that around 200,000 people climbed Japan's tallest mountain in the season ... while neighboring Shizuoka Prefecture will mull similar restrictions. Yamanashi set up a ...

After Oomiya, in northern Saitama prefecture, the tunnels that make all this straight-line speed possible begin to carve their way into ever longer stretches of mountain. For all the external ...

For L.G.B.T.Q. people in Japan, to live openly is a radical act. Figuring out who they are can be an isolating struggle. We spoke with eight Japanese about how they discovered their identities. But ...

The additional easing covers items including mushrooms, game meat and koshiabura (a mountain vegetable ... and Miyagi prefectures and tea from Shizuoka Prefecture can now be imported to Taiwan ...

Six decades after the first bullet train left Tokyo Station, Leo Lewis celebrates an icon of speed, style and national ...

Shizuoka Prefecture has everything from beaches to mountains, but this time our road takes us through its deep forests, from wild rides on timber trails to a wild taste experience in the ...

Nagano is located in the heart of Japan’s largest island, Honshu, and borders the prefectures of Niigata, Toyama, Gifu, Aichi, Shizuoka ... around the northwestern mountains, and heavy snowfall ...

She touched countless lives, leaving a lasting impression on everyone she met. Yumiko lived in Shizuoka Prefecture in Japan and studied humanities at Meiji University in Tokyo before coming to the U.S ...