Bugle weed (Ajuga) is another “black” plant that, like vampires, doesn’t do well in full sun. It is a fast-growing, attractive groundcover with coal-dark green leaves. In mid-to late spring, it forms ...

I recently found out that there's a city in Japan, Beppu, where many people are able to own or rent a home with a natural hot ...

It was a cold February day in northern Japan, snow piled high outside the onsen locker room windows as I slipped out of my clothes. Nervously, I stepped into the plumes of steam wafting from the next ...

Billions of years ago, Earth’s atmosphere was hostile, with barely any oxygen and toxic conditions for life. Researchers from the Earth-Life Science Institute studied Japan’s iron-rich hot springs, ...

Scientists off Japan found a deep-sea creature with 18 “dark yellow eggs” and discovered a new species, a study said. Getty Images/iStockphoto Thousands of feet down off the coast of Japan swam a pink ...

Each spring, Japan turns pink. Cherry blossoms sweep across the country, and with Mount Fuji rising behind them, it feels like a scene you can’t quite believe is real. Down in Kyushu, the Niwaki Dam ...

New research from Japan's iron-rich hot springs shows how early microbes may have harnessed iron and oxygen during the Great Oxygenation Event. Some 2.3 billion years ago, the Earth would have been ...

A splash of bright yellow has just landed in Japan’s domestic sports car scene, thanks to two new limited-production versions of the Toyota GR86 and Subaru BRZ twins. Both share the same vivid ...

Yellow Springs Smokehouse will serve its last customers on Sept. 7, according to a post on the restaurant’s Facebook page. Local restauranteur Brian Rainey teamed up with his longtime friend, Dayton ...

This August marks the 80th anniversary of the United States dropping two nuclear bombs on Japan, killing an estimated 140,000 people in Hiroshima and 74,000 in Nagasaki. The majority of the casualties ...

So this year on Oct. 2 an Ohio Historical Marker honoring Serling will be unveiled in Yellow Springs on the Antioch College campus where he earned a degree in literature in 1950, and returned to teach ...