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Rising fuel prices, a declining fish population and diminishing returns conspire to against one of Japan’s living cultural treasu...

The calendar on the wall of the hospital reception room reads 1974, and there are magazines on the shelves from 1971. Across the ...

Hiroki Ishikawa is one of Japan’s top trail runners, competing regularly in Japan and overseas. It’s been three years since he la...

Holding someone’s Olympic gold medal for the first time can be like holding their baby; it’s shiny and beautiful, but it’s a bit unsettling, and you don’t want to drop it, so you smile and hand it back after a few moments. 

Hakone is a popular destination for tourists who come for the many hot springs, fancy restaurants and historic ryokan (inns)....

It is night by the time you arrive. You can barely make out the trampled barbed wire fence as you ease under it. Your backpack ca...

The first time I walked on a pair of bamboo stilts with a 20-kg. pack on my back was the day I stood on Japan’s most northerly pr...

After spending four years riding more mountains in North America than most skiers get in a lifetime, I was ready for a new advent...