Japan's famous natural hot springs, or onsens, are facing a crisis due to overtourism, which is dangerously depleting water ...

Japan is home to 27,000 hot springs sources, but overtourism has reduced some of the country’s onsen water supply to a record ...

Prefectural officials say that many of them go on to land jobs outside the prefecture, thereby causing a drain to the local population. Saga Prefecture, in the meantime, is one of Japan’s five ...