Stations, vacant properties and an old bus have been turned into tourist accommodation, giving rural communities new life With rural Japan experiencing severe depopulation, unstaffed railway stations ...

With the number of people killed by bears reaching a record nationwide, the defense ministry is preparing to send the ...

Kamiyonai Station in Morioka attracts a steady stream of visitors for its local lacquerware works and access to a popular ...

STORY: In rural Japan a gunshot rings out. A bear slumps in a cage. "This brown bear got too close to a human community. It wasn't right here but over that way in the middle of the town and on the ...

Traveling by train in Japan is one of the wonders of our modern world, whether that’s whizzing through the countryside on the Shinkansen at up to 320 kilometers per hour (200 mph), relaxing on a ...