KAWAKAMI, Japan, Nov. 23 (UPI) --Every morning at 6:00 am Yasufumi Shintani goes out to the street in front of his small log house coffee shop, "Coffee Shop Bonkura," in this rural mountain village of ...

Megumi Murakami's award-winning image blends together the mystical qualities of fog, dawn light and nature's perfect symmetry ...

When people picture Japan, Tokyo's neon avenues or Kyoto's temple paths usually dominate the imagination. Yet a quieter story is unfolding far away from the rush. More Americans are turning to rural ...

A Japanese couple spent over two years building a cluster of round, wooden houses in the countryside. Kodawari Mizuno and his wife lived in one house and rented the rest to locals and Airbnb travelers ...

Jordan, 48, moved from Vancouver, Canada, to Japan to teach English over 20 years ago. After a decade of living in an old house built in the '80s, he demolished it and built a new one for his family.

Museums may not be the first thing you think of when it comes to Japan's car scene, but there's a surprising amount of them scattered around the country. The nation's main car manufacturers all have ...

Coline Aguirre bought a traditional house in the Japanese countryside when she was 24. She left France and moved to Japan alone to restore the property and start her own real-estate consultancy. "It's ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - When the coronavirus outbreak caused rice and instant noodles to disappear from supermarket shelves in Tokyo this year, Kaoru Okada, 36, decided to leave the capital because he was ...

NOSTALGIC TRAIN, a “heartrending, mysterious first-person adventure / walking simulator” set in the Japanese countryside, will launch for PC via Steam on June 13 in Japan for 2,000 yen, developer ...

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