There are many alternative ways to experience central Japan’s sacred peak without the crowds, from hiking its sister summits ...

Toyota has completed construction of the first phase of its experimental Woven City at the foot of Mt Fuji and people will ...

Toyota Motor plans to move in the first 100 residents of a futuristic city at the base of Mount Fuji in Japan by as soon as this fall. The initial residents of Woven City will be composed mostly ...

or baby Japanese eels, are believed to have increased in rivers in Hokkaido, northernmost Japan, in recent years because of an ocean current moving northward due to global warming. Researchers ...

World’s oldest person who climbed Japan’s Mount Ontake twice dies at 116 - Itooka, who loved bananas and a yogurt-flavored ...

Sure, they’re a great chance to get some of the best food Japan has to offer, but why have there been so many? One’s first guess might be that they rake in the dough with sales, but that’s actually ...

Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) expects to use electricity generated by the novel move to power lighting at stations and other rail-related facilities, for example. The noise barriers cover ...

Four people were found dead on Mount Fuji on June 26, days before the official climbing season starts on Japan’s highest peak, police said. Three of the bodies were discovered in separate ...

The Hokkaido-based IST in 2019 became the first Japanese company to send a commercially developed rocket into space, but its orbital launcher, Zero, remains under development. IST's rival Space ...

An international marine research team guided by Cornell expertise has successfully completed an ambitious drilling project to ...