Three scenes from the world of Japanese museums: Odawara, Japan: You walk along a level daylight-filled corridor, some 300 feet long, one side lined with glass, the other with volcanic stones ...

Yokohama’s Chinatown is the largest in Japan and is surrounded by 10 ornately decorated gates. It’s tempting to get lost in ...

A vertebrate fossil discovered in a rock from the Late Triassic period (approximately 220 million years ago) in Takahashi ...

Throughout Japan’s Meiji period, which stretched from 1868 to 1912, a commercial firefly industry gorged on the colonies emerging from Moriyama’s waterways.

Museums may not be the first thing you think of when it comes to Japan’s car scene, but there’s a surprising amount of them scattered around the country. The nation’s main car manufacturers ...

YAME, Fukuoka >> A museum dedicated to the late U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye, the first Japanese American member of Congress, who devoted his career to promoting Japanese-U.S. friendship, opened ...