For some decades now the village, crouched in the hills of Hyōgo prefecture and with a sacred 500-year-old oak tree at its centre, was indisputably on a demographic course to zero.

F UKUOKA -- A film based on the true story of two Japanese soldiers in World War II who lived hidden in the canopy of a banyan tree on a remote Okinawan island for two years, unaware the war had ...

The sacred camphor tree at Kinomiya Shrine in Atami is no ordinary timber. Estimated to be more than 2,000 years old, it is one of Japan’s largest and oldest camphor trees — a towering guardian of ...

Learn how to plant a Japanese maple tree in your own yard, and you'll soon understand why. These maples are compact, usually under 25 feet tall, grow slowly, seldom overtake a space.

Japan's super-aged society continues to gray, with 29.3 percent of its population now aged 65 or older, the highest rate of any country worldwide, according to a Japanese statistics bureau report ...