The threat of violence has a way of focusing the mind. And this Japanese mountain temple offers enlightenment through an “awakening stick”.
Tokyo is an exhausting but exhilarating place to visit. Its glamour,organisation and startling contrasts provide the ultimate Japanese experience.
Spend a couple of days on Fukue Island,and you soon discover there is much beyond beautiful beaches.
Your ticket to eating and drinking at all the best establishments in a country that can be famously difficult to navigate comes down to one word.
The UN’s weather body reports new temperature records across the northern hemisphere – and parts of the Mediterranean will grow hotter still.
Foreign Minister Penny Wong has reinforced Australia’s energy commitment to Japan after an official in Tokyo said relations could be undermined by Labor’s climate policy.
According to police,a 17-year-old Canadian used his fingernail to carve “J” and “Julian” into a pillar of Japan’s Toshodaiji Temple,a UNESCO World Heritage site.
China’s economic authorities have a problem. It is in everyone’s interests,particularly Australia’s,that they find a solution.
There is tremendous respect and love for vintage items in Tokyo and if you’re shopping for vintage,the hard work has been done.
Travellers to Japan will soon be able to show up with little more than the clothes they’re wearing,thanks to a push by Japan Airlines to save fuel and add new revenues.
Twelve years after a tsunami struck Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant,more than one million tonnes of radioactive water is to be released into the ocean. Is it safe?