NARA--A festival that involves setting fire to a grassy mountain slope was held at Mount Wakakusayama here to herald the early arrival of spring. As tourists and others watched in the darkness of Jan.

One such place is Nara, a city in central Japan. Within minutes of arriving, I spotted two sika deer casually lounging in the city centre, unfazed by the hundreds of commuters rushing past.

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Join us on a design hunt in Nara, where Japan's ancient landscape meets modern sensibilities. *This episode was previously aired on DESIGN TALKS plus. Our first design is deeply entwined with ...

Public bins are scarce across Japan, with one theory being that the deadly 1995 subway sarin gas attacks by a doomsday cult caused them to be removed. Gawel Golecki, a 40-year-old from Poland who ...

Cherry blossom season in Japan usually doesn't start until late ... The flowers are on full display at a farm along Nara's Yamanobe Road, which is said to be the oldest in the country.

NARA—The Nara National Museum has unveiled the details of its first full-scale exhibition devoted to national treasures, which will bring together Japan’s finest works of Buddhist art next ...

The sacred deer of Nara Park, Japan, are facing a serious threat due to plastic waste left behind by tourists. The park’s 1,300 sacred sika deer, revered for centuries, are creasingly suffering ...

Japan might be world-famous for its traditional food, but these days it’s becoming just as well known for innovative sweets. Now, there’s a new store called Mikuriya that’s set to steal the limelight ...