Depopulation in Japan’s countryside shows biodiversity declines even when people leave, urging smarter land use to protect ...

From the statue of Kimi-chan, if you walk up Daikoku-zaka Street, you'll find the Azabu Hikawa Shrine, where Rei (a.k.a.

Japan's declining population in agricultural regions could be having a damaging impact on biodiversity—a trend that could ...

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Japan’s sidewalk restaurants, known as “yatai,” have almost entirely disappeared—except in Fukuoka, where they’ve undergone a ...

Japan's first university department dedicated to dinosaur research opened last month in a prefecture known for major dinosaur fossil discoveries. The Faculty of Dinosaur Paleontology at Fukui ...

Now ubiquitous in many of Japan’s 9,000 stations, the first eki stamp appeared in 1931 at Fukui station near the Sea of Japan coast, where stationmaster Kanichi Tominaga hit upon the idea of a ...

Fujisawa, and Professor Akemi Tomoda from the University of Fukui, Japan. Speaking to us about the rationale behind ... a statistical technique that maps and tests relationships between multiple ...