High up in the Japanese Alps ... But when travellers first walked this ancient route, it would have been a far less meditative affair. The Nakasendo road was established in the 1600s to facilitate ...

On this episode of Journeys in Japan, Sheila Cliffe from the UK follows the Silk Road from northern Kanto, once a major production area, to Yokohama, where the silk took off to the world.

KYOTO--A worker at an organization for preserving cultural property accidentally crashed his car on Oct. 17 into "Japan’s oldest ... But the ancient latrines were undisturbed and the entrance ...