About 419 miles northeast of Aharen Beach (an overlooked Japanese gem rivaling the Maldives) lies a secluded island perfect ...

The island of Yakushima in 1993 was designated as one of Japan’s first UNESCO natural world heritage sites. Its rugged mountains, lush rainforests, and stunning coastline are well worth a visit ...

Nevertheless, I was stunned anew to learn that until as recently as the Showa Era (1926-1989), Ino’s map was still used as reference material for 1:200,000 topographic maps of Yakushima Island ...

Yakushima is one of 6,000 islands that comprise Japan. The 195-square-mile fragment of land floating off the country’s southwestern tip has been part of Japan since at least the early 8 th ...

In Japan’s epic anime film Princess Mononoke, legendary director Hayao Miyazaki shrouds the real-life island of Yakushima with surrealism, its misty granite mountains the backdrop for a ...