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Trying to decide on your next running adventure? Before sending in your yen for a race in Japan, consider spicing things up with ...

The Zao and Azuma mountain ranges lie on the border of Miyagi, Yamagata and Fukushima prefectures. This Tohoku ride offer...

One of the most beautiful and scenic coastlines in Japan is certainly the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture. Naturally, it is...

From 10 meters above, atop a steep, ice-covered ravine, I could hear my hiking partner’s voice calling down to me. “Yes, I’m OK,”...

There are brands out there, bigger than the products they make. They make good stuff, of course, but a company becomes iconic whe...

Kagoshima prefecture is the southernmost prefecture on Kyushu Island and the climate there sure feels that way. In late Decem...

Hot water is good. I love it. But not like that comfortable, homey love affair I have with my slippers. And not like that sne...

I’m sitting in a pub near Shinagawa Station, sipping a pint, when a slightly inebriated gentleman with an unmistakable Geordi...