The birthplace of karate also holds a deeply rooted connection to spirituality and nature. Here’s how to plan a visit to this ...

speaks at his home in Ikitsuki Island in Hirado, southern Japan, Sunday, April 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) A scroll of the Virgin Mary and Jesus once secretly worshipped hangs at a home in ...

Hokkaido’s wild interior is home to Japan’s largest national park ... A half-hour ferry ride west of Okinawa’s namesake main island, a smattering of smaller isles make up Kerama-shoto ...

Kobayashi's home island is no longer off the tourist radar ... The contemporary art festival – which is now one of Japan's foremost international art events – attracts roughly one million ...

Part of the Ogasawara archipelago, Chichijima lays some 150 miles north of Iwo Jima and 500 miles south of the Japanese home islands and is not even the size of New York city’s central park.