This multimodal route through the country’s Northern Alps is a great alternative to the similar journey around Mount Fuji — ...

The true story of how a rainstorm at a U.S. Marine encampment led to a deadly conflagration.

Fifteen years ago, Myer suggested to his good friend and skiing buddy Peter Yates, famed for his work with Macquarie Bank and then the Packer, Myer and Fox families, that he hike the Milford. Yates ...

Travelers heading to Los Angeles or Japan may benefit from the recommendations of original War member Lonnie Jordan and the ...

A Japanese prefecture that shares Mt. Fuji is considering charging rescued individuals for helicopter deployments to the ...

I have a thing for ferries. Not the stomach-churning Devon to France crossings as a kid in the UK, bunged in the back of a Ford Escort with the cornflakes and tea bags. But the little ferries that ...

A Japanese prefecture that shares Mt. Fuji is considering charging rescued individuals for helicopter deployments to the ...

The Yamanashi prefectural government hopes to discourage climbing during the off-season Read more at straitstimes.com. Read ...

As more climbers have become stranded on Mt. Fuji when the mountain is closed to the public, the Yamanashi prefectural ...

I want to enjoy a ridge walk!” That is what I was thinking when I headed to Mt. Kobo in Hadano, Kanagawa Prefecture. Legend ...

People talk a lot about the complexity of etiquette in Japan, but in 20 years of living here, I think all the ins and outs ...

At 18.10, the male climber had to contact the emergency number 110 in Japan because he admitted he could no longer walk. He ...