The Tateyama-Kurobe Alpine Route is one of the world's most famous mountain tourist sites. It traverses the Japanese Alps and boasts scenery that could rival the snow-capped mountains of the Swiss ...

The Shinmoedake volcano, located on the border of Kagoshima and Miyazaki prefectures, continued to erupt on Thursday, July 3, ...

The House of Councillors July 20 election exposes the cracks in Japan’s political strongholds and the growing regional-urban ...

The researchers then asked those foodie-minded travelers which prefecture they wanted to go to, producing a top-10/10-course list of must-visit destinations for food travel in Japan. Miyagi Prefecture ...

Singaporean Fariqqin Anuar, 34, is determined to visit all 47 prefectures in Japan and will soon be completing this feat.

Japan has 47 prefectures, administrative divisions ranking immediately below the national government. They were created following the Meiji restoration of 1868, often with borders matching the ...

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A Nippon.com series on Japan’s prefectures, giving brief overviews of the 47 areas, from Hokkaidō in the north to Okinawa in the south, that make up the nation as a whole.