Taxis also saw a 60 percent increase, from 2,500 to 4,100 vehicles. Shigeru Horiuchi, the committee chairman, who is also Fuji-Yoshida’s mayor, noted concerns about the potential increase in ...

OTAKE, Hiroshima Prefecture--Designed by renowned architect Shigeru Ban and facing the Seto Inland Sea, the Simose Art Museum here has been named the “world’s most beautiful museum” by UNESCO.