At various places around the world people have reported strange, loud banging noises that appear to be coming from the sky.

The tendency of people to work well into their retirement ages is threatening the future of the sacred pilgrimage route of 88 temples on Shikoku island, tourism officials say. Tackling sections of ...

Henro, a pilgrimage of 88 temples in Shikoku, is a tradition with a long history. It attracts 150,000 people from all over the world annually. Calling these pilgrims "o-henro-san," or those who ...

Japanese weather officials are warning that unstable atmospheric conditions will likely bring heavy rain to large parts of ...

SHIKOKU, Japan – Sitting on the shinkansen and whizzing past iconic Mount Fuji on the so-called Golden Route between Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka is a classic tourist experience. Yet, my abiding ...

Each ball, or “temari,” is a work of art, with colorful geometric patterns carrying poetic names like “firefly flowers” and ...

The first earthquake to register an intensity of lower 6 on the main western island of Shikoku injured eight people and disrupted traffic but caused no tsunami, authorities said. The offshore ...

200 million people go on a pilgrimage each year ... it is but there's something special about this place." The Island of Shikoku in Japan is the birthplace of the most revered figure in Japanese ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency initially issued a tsunami advisory, predicting waves of up to 1 meter (3.3 feet) along the southern coast of Kyushu and nearby island of Shikoku. People have been ...

As early as the 1920s, some native mammals of South America, Asia and Africa have been introduced to Texas; now many of them ...

The Japanese traditional craft of creating "temari" or hand-crafted embroidered balls is at risk of dying out. But a group of women in the southwestern island of Shikoku are determined to preserve the ...