Akane Tanaka Schneider walks with her dogs at a park in Ome city, Tokyo. Image: AFP The insularity of rural Japan was stifling for 37-year-old Akane Tanaka Schneider, who grew up in Niigata and now ...

With onsen hot springs, ancient shrines and great forests of broadleaf and conifer trees that conceal galloping waterfalls, ...

HITACHI, Japan — By pledging to revitalize depopulated rural areas, Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba hopes to help his party retain its majority in Sunday's general election. Over 40% of ...

Many young people working in Tokyo and other major Japanese cities during the COVID-19 pandemic are abandoning the once sacrosanct idea that employees must put work above all and shifting their ...

The town of Silent Hill draws on these fears due ... rusty urban environments and allowing for greater variety. 1960s rural ...