FROM onsens to food to temples, cherry blossoms and Ryokans, here is Lonely Planet's guide to travelling in Japan. Standing at the far-eastern end of the Silk Road and drawing influences from the ...

A lonely and jobless Japanese woman reportedly bombarded first responders with 2,761 fake calls for help — just to get some attention. Hiroko Hatagami, 51, of Matsudo, was arrested Thursday on ...

In the 1990s, Taichi Yoshida, the owner of a small moving company in Osaka, Japan, began noticing that many of his jobs involved people who had just died. Families of the deceased were either too ...

A spate of dolphin attacks on swimmers in Japan’s Fukui Prefecture is being blamed on one bottlenose dolphin, who researchers believe may be particularly lonely, having been separated from a pod.