Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Coline Aguirre bought a traditional house in the Japanese countryside when she was 24. She left France and moved to Japan alone to ...

Have you had the feeling recently that everyone you know has been (or is about to go) to Japan? You’re not wrong. Last December there was an almost 30% increase in international visitors from the ...

"Every year, families across Japan return to their hometowns to honor their ancestors during the Obon festival, one of the country’s most significant and cherished traditions. This festival, which has ...

This story originally published in the September 1922 issue of National Geographic magazine. See more digitized stories from our archives here. Of all the poetic titles applied by the Japanese in ...