The term refers to a long-standing Japanese tradition in which people travel to specific hills, valleys and forests to get a glimpse of the country’s autumn foliage and appreciate the changing ...

TOYAMA -- The autumn foliage of the Tateyama mountain range in Japan's Northern Alps is at its peak, and Erman's birch, ...

And for Rai Sanyo, a Japanese Confucianist scholar of the late Edo Period (1603-1867), it was Nov. 11. In their lifetimes, autumn leaves changed colors in Kyoto much earlier than today.

Officials now say the autumn leaves will be at their best around mid-December. Only about 10 percent of the leaves on four Japanese maples designated as specimen trees at Nijo Castle in Nakagyo ...

A study group aiming to introduce an eco-friendly public transportation system, such as a ropeway, to improve access to the mountainous ...

“Even monkeys fall from trees,” runs an old Japanese proverb. Last week the wiliest arborealist in the Japanese political jungle crashed ingloriously to earth. He was Liberal-Democrat Party ...