SHIRAKAWA, Gifu Prefecture--The Shirakawa village office will raise fees at municipal parking lots on Oct. 1 in hopes of thinning out the crowds of tourists here, which is part of a UNESCO World ...

The Historic Villages of Shirakawa-gō and Gokayama are two traditional mountain villages located in the Shogawa river valley ...

For the majority of 2025, Mina Shirakawa has been wrestling in STARDOM, but at the beginning of the year she battled Mercedes Mone at Wrestle Dynasty in a double title match for the NJPW STRONG ...

The Nintendo Switch 2 Direct revealed a lot of new information about the system yesterday, and one of the tidbits you may have noticed is that Japan is getting a Japanese-language only version of ...

Village Roadshow Entertainment Group, the renowned film producer and financier that has backed “The Matrix,” “Ocean’s Eleven,” “Joker” and “The Lego Movie” franchises, has filed ...

Around 150 villagers threw themselves into the effort. According to the Shirakawa village board of education, this was the first re-thatching in Shirakawa-go in five years. Work on May 13 involved ...

A rapidly intensifying low-pressure system was unleashing heavy snow and strong winds across much of Japan, stretching from northern to western regions, with central Tokyo expected to see up to 1 ...

With Little Village, local gallerists and developers JJ and Anthony Curis prioritize featuring local artists, and the inclusive involvement of the surrounding community. The site’s linchpin is ...

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As Japan's population shrinks ... The temple is 150 years old and was found in Shirakawa Village, Gifu Prefecture. Google map showing "Shozan" Each structure was carefully disassembled, marked ...

The Japanese language has three types of characters: Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. Hiragana and Katakana are phonetic symbols, each representing one syllable while Kanji is ideogram, each stand ...