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 ...

The Liberal Democratic Party, which has been in power almost continuously since 1955, failed to secure an absolute majority ...

Other atlases were brought to Japan by the Jesuit missionaries. We also have records showing that the English sent maps. For instance, the cargo of the Thomas, which reached Hirado on June 20, 1616, ...

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 ...

And so we have created our interactive ‘Japan Internet Map’ which you see above. To start, we have selected 100 companies and services, sorting them into various sectors [2]. (If you’re confused, see ...