Authorities in Japan have rescued the same climber from the slopes of Mount Fuji twice in the space of a week.

to travel to Oita instead,” a spokesman from Oita Prefectural Government’s tourism bureau told CNN on Thursday. Oita is about one hour away from Osaka by plane and four hours by train.

Don’t write an obituary for tourist info offices just yet. In Asia, these centers are thriving – and not just because people need directions. In Japan and Korea, these offices are tourist attractions ...

Japan and China have accused each other of violating the airspace around the Japanese-controlled East China Sea islands, which Beijing also claims. The latest territorial flap came as both ...

Editor’s Note: Samantha Bresnahan is a supervising producer for CNN and author of the new book ... Returned by the US to Japan in 1968, and eventually renamed Iwo-To (Iō-Tō) in 2007 ...