Without giving it much thought, many Japanese join their palms and fingers together in front of their faces and chests to do "gassho," the gesture for praying. At first, I thought the gesture was ...

Located in a mountainous region that was cut off from the rest of the world for a long period of time, these villages with their Gassho-style houses subsisted on the cultivation of mulberry trees and ...

With their thatched roofs under heavy snow, Shirakawa-gō in northwest Gifu Prefecture and nearby Gokayama in southwest Toyama Prefecture, both located in the Shō River catchment area, are famed as ...

Located in a mountainous region that was cut off from the rest of the world for a long period of time, these villages with their Gassho-style houses subsisted on the cultivation of mulberry trees and ...

TOKYO, Jan. 31, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Nanto City Tourism Association (Nanto City, Toyama Prefecture; President Seiichi Kawai) launched sales on December 6 for a special tour, "Stay in World ...

The Historic Villages of Shirakawa-gō and Gokayama are two traditional mountain villages located in the Shogawa river valley in the Gifu and Toyama prefectures of Japan. These villages are known for ...

The papermaking factory in Gokayama, Japan where paper called Gokayama washi paper is made from a mixture of mulberry trees.Alamy The typhoon has been a major conversation topic since the moment I ...

Completed in 2019 in 1397-46 Gokayama, Nakagawa, Fukuoka 811-1234, Japan, Japan. Images by Takeshi Yamagishi, Yousuke Harigane, Seinosuke Kaneda, yHa architects. This is a project selected in the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Kazumi Numaguchi takes a handful of grass and draws the bright steel of his sickle through the stems. Holding ...