But Arashiyama isn’t remote at all; it’s on the outskirts of Kyoto. Also known as the Sagano Bamboo Forest, Arashiyama covers six square miles (16sq km) of largely Moso bamboo, which is ...

Makino Mantaro, in the Japan Broadcasting Corp. (NHK ... the end of the last glacial period, and the forest today is primarily unchanged from 8,000 years ago. That was the Jomon Period when ...

Is Japan an outlier in the disinformation age? It can sometimes seem that way. In a world saturated by social media, false and misleading online narratives are an increasingly serious problem.

Residents of Nanyo city in northern Japan urged to evacuate due to forest fire threat. Helicopters douse flames, with firefighting efforts to resume Monday. Climate extremes prompt urgent global ...

Dublin, May 08, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Japan Bamboo Market Overview, 2029" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The Japanese bamboo market demonstrates resilience and ...

Japan’s population has been in decline for several years – at the last count in 2022, the population had shrunk by more than 800,000 since the previous year, to 125.4 million.

They predicted that these drugs would dominate the market in Japan, but that won’t mean much, for a simple reason: there is almost no obesity there. Some 42% of Americans are obese, compared ...

Japan likely conducted its second currency intervention this week, current account figures from the central bank suggest, in another sign of the government’s intensified battle to prop up the yen.

By Motoko Rich, Hisako Ueno and Kiuko Notoya Reporting from Tokyo When the future empress of Japan entered the country’s elite diplomatic corps in 1987, a year after a major equal employment ...

Two motorists had a terrifying encounter with a huge brown bear on a forest road on the outskirts of Nemuro in Japan's Hokkaido prefecture on April 28. Heart-stopping dashcam footage captured the ...

Enter bamboo sheets. Bamboo fabric (which is technically lyocell, viscose or rayon, but more details on that later) is known for its silky smooth and lightweight feel. Plus, the best bamboo sheets ...