Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Onsen are baths filled with geothermally heated, mineral-rich water. They’ve long been part of Japanese culture, but foreign ...

There's nothing quite like coastal Japan—I love waking up to island-dotted bays and gentle sea breezes. In this particular town, though, the landscape is peppered with tendrils of steam and mist that ...

Are you still figuring out what to put on your Japan packing list for spring? After reading this article you’ll know exactly what to bring with you! This packing list for Japan covers what you need to ...

I wrapped my yukata, a cloth kimono, around my naked body, pulling the left side of the fabric over the right, as instructed, and tied the obi sash securely at my waist. The hotel provided these robes ...

With Tokyo Fashion Week coming to a close, there is much to see and do outside of the collections—from the gardens to the shrines and the obligatory (and adorable) stationery store romps. However, few ...

They built it, and people came. So many people came to last year’s Kizuna Japanese Spring Festival that it has moved to the larger Sammy Davis Festival Plaza in Lorenzi Park. “We were expecting maybe ...

COLUMBIA – Hundreds gathered at the first ever Japanese Spring Festival on MU’s campus Monday afternoon. Student Momoko Tamamura came up with the idea for the festival as a way for her and fellow MU ...