FROM onsens to food to temples, cherry blossoms and Ryokans, here is Lonely Planet's guide to travelling in Japan. Standing at the far-eastern end of the Silk Road and drawing influences from the ...

In the 1990s, Taichi Yoshida, the owner of a small moving company in Osaka, Japan, began noticing that many of his jobs involved people who had just died. Families of the deceased were either too ...

A spate of dolphin attacks on swimmers in Japan’s Fukui Prefecture is being blamed on one bottlenose dolphin, who researchers believe may be particularly lonely, having been separated from a pod.