In the 1830s, at the tail end of Japan’s flourishing Edo ... a string of 17th-century towns in the Kiso Valley, which straddles the Gifu and Nagano prefectures. The Nakasendō at its full ...

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Students at the municipal Fukushima Elementary School in Kiso, Nagano Prefecture ... number of elementary and junior high schools in Japan moving away from a traditional whole-class teaching ...

Kisoji is an old road that runs through Kiso in Nagano Prefecture ... with feudal lords from all over Japan using it to get to Tokyo to serve the shogun during the Samurai period.

The air is crisp, the snow deep and undisturbed. The Japanese Alps tower around us, beckoning us to their slopes. In central Japan, just under two hours from Tokyo by bullet train, Nagano is known ...