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

The Japan Social Development Fund (JSDF) is a Partnership between the Government of Japan (GoJ) and the World Bank conceived in the wake of the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s. It was ...

The insect section is humongous. Mount Takao is home to thousands of insect species and is one of Japan’s three major insect habitats, along with Mount Minoo in Osaka and Mount Kibune in Kyoto.

of about 5.5 million foreign visitors to national parks around the country in 2016, more than half, or 2,577,000 people, visited Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park. See "In the Foothills of Mount ...

The area, a popular photography spot because of how Mount Fuji rises behind the convenience store, has gained traction on social media, attracting a surge of foreign tourists. The fences are ...

A town at the foot of Mount Fuji is taking another step to urge tourists to follow traffic rules. Camera-toting visitors are once again flocking to a local spot where Japan's highest peak appears ...

But another view reveals the site of Mount Fuji’s last confirmed eruption, which began on December 16, 1707, during Japan’s Hoei era. The image of a tranquil Fuji became enshrined in ...

A distraught Mason Mount suffered a fresh injury setback just 12 minutes into the Manchester derby. The Manchester United midfielder has been plagued by injury issues since joining the Red Devils ...

Mason Mount has suffered yet another injury setback, limping out of the Manchester derby on Sunday after just 12 minutes. The Manchester United midfielder went down off the ball early in the game ...

Mt. Everest was first summited by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953 via The South Col route. Since their historic accomplishment, their path has been the most traveled. This is ...

(AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File) Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] BANGKOK (AP) — A quarterly survey by Japan’s central bank shows business sentiment has improved ...

The Shizuoka Prefectural Government on Friday unveiled the outline of a draft ordinance calling for collecting ¥4,000 per person from those climbing Mount Fuji ... fee for Japan's highest ...