Night - Cloudy with a 40% chance of precipitation. Winds from WSW to SW at 7 mph (11.3 kph). The overnight low will be 34 °F (1.1 °C). Partly cloudy with a high of 48 °F (8.9 °C). Winds ...

Hari Gawai, which falls on the 1st and 2nd of June each year is particularly celebrated by the Ibans and Bidayuhs. It is both a religious and social occasion as this festival marks the end of the ...

Japan’s quirkiest museums are not limited to urban hubs ... venomous white snakes with red eyes — albino Japanese rat snakes — have thrived in the Iwakuni area. Albinism is typically rare in wild ...

Food: On-site restaurant, food trucks and vending machines. Jonathan Snyder is a reporter at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan. Most of his career was spent as an aerial combat ...

Japan is staring down a demographic cliff. The population has shrunk for 15 straight years, with births hitting a record low of 730,000 last year and deaths a record high of 1.58 million.

As 2024 nears its end and we look back on the year in entertainment, it was clearly one when Japan-related works loomed large on the global market. It is a diverse group of works. Some were made ...

Omiwa Jinja is one of the oldest Shinto shrines in Japan. Walking through the complex, you can see earlier forms of Shintoism, including the lack of a main prayer hall, a standard characteristic of ...

Night - Partly cloudy. Winds from WSW to W at 6 to 9 mph (9.7 to 14.5 kph). The overnight low will be 38 °F (3.3 °C). Partly cloudy with a high of 51 °F (10.6 °C). Winds from W to WNW at 8 to ...

Located in the Yamagata region about 260 miles north of Tokyo, the onsen is one of the most famous in Japan, drawing around 330,000 visitors each year. Travelers from around the world flock to the ...