As is true throughout rural Japan, many of the once-vibrant villages on Honshu’s Kii Peninsula are aging into nothingness. In the distance: Nachi Falls, with a single uninterrupted drop of 436 ...

Tucking into our tofu hotpot at the end of our first day’s hike, our host started to play music. His three-stringed instrument, the sanshin, resembles a banjo, except that its body is covered in ...

Located in central Japan, Mie is renowned for its rich cultural heritage and natural landscapes. Home to the sacred Ise Grand Shrine, it’s the spiritual heart of Shintoism. The coastline features the ...

The symbiotic communities of invertebrates in dead coral gravel on the shallow, warm-temperate coast of the Kii Peninsula in western Japan. New bivalve species and sideswimmer have been found to live ...