No matter the month or the season, there are plenty of gorgeous destinations around the world with beautiful blooming flowers ...

A vacation to Japan can be anything you want it to be, and a journey to the birth place of wasabi comes with ice cream, hot ...

Last year the government issued its first 'megaquake' advisory. Ever since, those living in the areas it's expected to hit ...

Shoma Hata, right, president of Repubrew, and Hansharo Beer Brewing's head brewer Junpei Yamada, whose craft breweries have both produced high-alcohol beers, are seen in Mishima, Shizuoka ...

Kumi, right, stands with another geigi in front of Izunagaoka Kenban. IZUNOKUNI, Shizuoka — As I walked down a narrow path on the edge of an onsen spa town in Izunokuni, Shizuoka Prefecture, the sound ...

to the Kawazu Seven Waterfalls hike through a gorge with a seemingly endless parade of falling water. On the fifth day of our trip, we summited a mountain to a viewpoint where we saw a tiny ...

A man takes a photograph of a woman next to a cherry tree in Kawazu, Japan, on March 2, 2025. A man takes a photograph of a woman next to a cherry tree in Kawazu, Japan, on March 2, 2025.

Farmers have begun harvesting the first green tea leaves of the year in the central Japanese prefecture of Shizuoka. Harvesting of the Kondo-wase variety began on Wednesday in Shizuoka City's ...

In a recent interview with Denfaminicogamer, SaGa series’ creator Akitoshi Kawazu talked about his views on balancing difficulty. Asked whether establishing SaGa as a high-difficulty series was ...

Square Enix is giving the SaGa franchise a break on PS5 and PS4 after a relative bombardment of new releases from the franchise. Three games in the series have hit the PS Store in the last year, and ...