Offering guests hourly rates and privacy, “love hotels” can be found across Japan. But as photographer François Prost ...

It might be tempting to think that December isn’t the best time of year to visit Japan. Although December officially marks ...

Five years after fire ravaged Okinawa's iconic Shuri Castle, hopes for a full recovery in visitor numbers at the World ...

“And many, many of them are castles,” he added of the facades of around 200 love hotels captured in his new photography series. While guests can rent rooms by the night, Japan’s love hotels ...

Work has begun to take down part of a collapsed stonewall of a centuries-old castle in Kumamoto City, southwestern Japan. The ...

Studio Ghibli released “Howl’s Moving Castle” in Japan in 2004, and its thoughtful consideration of age and war remains ...