Travelers to Japan should seek out this mirror-like lake near Mount Fuji that promises unbeatable views of the mountain and great cherry blossom-viewing.

But the water levels of Japan’s largest freshwater lake continue to drop due to low rainfall. In Nagahama, a city in the northern part of Shiga Prefecture, a small island called Okunosu that ...

The birds spent the winter on Japan's main island of Honshu and elsewhere and are now being seen at Kutcharo-ko in the town of Hamatonbetsu. The lake is registered under the Ramsar Convention ...

There are 416 populated remote islands in Japan, according to the 2015 census. They include Okishima, a tourist-popular island on the waters of Lake Biwako in Shiga Prefecture, known as “cat ...