Emergency services were activated in the Japanese cities of Nara and Osaka after an earthquake struck at around 6.28pm today ...

NACHI-KATSUURA, Wakayama Prefecture—A rodent that was rescued from a curious house cat turned out to be the first Japanese dormouse found in this town on the Kii Peninsula. The dormouse, a ...

Carp-shaped streamers known as koinobori are a familiar sight in Japan fluttering in the breeze to celebrate Children's Day ...

In the first reported instance in Japan, two lions died in January at the Adventure World zoo in Shirahama, Wakayama Prefecture, after contracting the novel coronavirus, the zoo reported on March 9.

Wakayama Prefecture, on the Pacific coast south of Japan’s ancient capitals of Nara and Kyoto, has attracted pilgrims for centuries. Its Mount Kōya temple complex is one of Japan’s most sacred sites.

The four-carriage Gran Tenku, a new sightseeing train that connects Osaka to Mt. Koya, a UNESCO world heritage site in ...

SHANGHAI: Four giant pandas who returned to China last month from the Adventure World theme park in Shirahama, Wakayama Prefecture, are doing well in a video released from a research base. The Chengdu ...

Please always refer to the latest government advice before booking travel and departing on any trip. Hit the beach and unwind in hot springs in two of Japan's seaside towns, Shirahama and Kushimoto.

There is so much more to Japan than just the typical tourist hot spots. Wakayama, the mountainous prefecture on Honshu Island, epitomizes this. Located in southern Kansai, Wakayama is celebrated for ...

Joel Loynd’s obsession with uncovering bad games and even worse hardware so you don’t have to has led him on this path. Since the age… The new governor of the Wakayama prefecture in Japan has come ...