TOKYO — Warner Bros.’ “The Last Samurai” and Disney’s “Finding Nemo” started their local release Dec. 6 and crossed the magic ¥10 billion ($94.8 million) mark early this week. Now they’re set to be ...

Kazunori Yamada runs an indoor fishing pond called Tsuribori Honpo in the town of Toki, Gifu Prefecture. When he arrived at the facility last Tuesday morning to get the place ready to open for the day ...

the blue pond’s floating pillars • The famed Shirogane “blue pond” tourist attraction in Hokkaido, Japan, is lit up at night, lending a mysterious glow to the withered larch trees and glassy water ...

The koi pond in Manito Park’s Nishinomiya Tsutakawa Japanese Garden is back open following a 16-month closure caused by the pandemic and water-saving construction. The attraction reopened to the ...

I checked the internet for when the sun would rise and left my hotel room dressed in white a half-hour before Amaterasu-sama (sun goddess) would appear from the ocean, if there were no obstructing ...

It might seem surprising that the owner of a fishing pond would have so much concern for the wellbeing of the same fish that his business encourages customers to try to catch. Indoor fishing ponds in ...