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Tokyo: Mount Fuji in Japan's Shizouka received its iconic snowcap early Wednesday, over a month later than usual, setting a ...

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Over the past 100 years, GZUCM has cultivated 180, 000 top-degree doctors who are dedicated to the nation and the cause of traditional Chinese medicine, including leading figures represented by ...

The most famous technique is ... crest and a motif featuring mountains, rivers and human figures. This family crest is of the Hinlopen family, which engaged in trade in Amsterdam (Collection of ...

SHUICHI ABE: Nagano is in central Japan, heading a little north into our mountains. It takes just about one hour to reach ...

The mountain beckons hikers with six main paths leading to its peak, covering distances from 11km to a 14.5km round trip, and taking anywhere between a hefty four to seven hours to complete ...

Early risers have enjoyed a large cloud of fog slowly cascading down a mountainside like a waterfall in the central Japanese town ... basin on the one side of the mountain, then it pours over ...

The story of this new Japanese climb, in the purest style and overcoming extreme difficulties, is simply epic. "Last year, I ...

A friend asked him what the brown spots were, and Yabuki realized that trees on Mount Azumayama, which is touted among the 100 most scenic mountains in Japan, had been felled. The mountain was ...

He regularly lugs 100-kilogram loads on his back to deliver food and other items to mountain huts in marshlands on the border between Gunma, Fukushima and Niigata prefectures. As a “bokka ...