Autumn in Japan is a season for mountain climbing, and the number of foreign hikers is rising. Police statistics show that more hikers are becoming lost or stranded. To help them out, a Japanese ...

In the last survey released in 1987, geographers counted islands with a coastline of 100 meters or longer on paper maps, according to the Japan Coast Guard, the author of the survey. The previous ...

Taking this a step further, we wanted to give you a sort broad overview of Japan’s internet landscape. And so we have created our interactive ‘Japan Internet Map’ which you see above. To start, we ...

Japan's meteorological agency has published a map showing which parts of the country could be struck by a tsunami in the ...