These days, traveling is much more than checking popular destinations out, eating local food, and shopping for souvenirs. It has become about seeking contentment and happiness through self-discovery. Wellness tourism, which promotes health and well...
Adventure World, in conjunction with YeeY Corporation, Japan’s Well-being Horse Therapy & Horse Coaching Association (WHA), and GIVENESS&Co., is on the path to developing an innovative program named ‘Horse Coaching,’ to...
In many cases, malt lees—by-products that emerge when beer is brewed—are thrown away as industrial waste. But VOYAGER BREWING, a brewery in Tanabe City, Wakayama Prefecture, has found a way to upcycle them into delicious “GRANOLA BARS”...
Splashtop Inc. has partnered with Wakayama Prefecture to launch the “Wakayama Regional Issue-Solving Workation Project.” The first project of this collaboration is focused on solving agricultural issues through “Agriculture DX...
While Japan remains cautious about opening its borders to foreigners because of COVID, Oku Japan is one of the tour companies preparing to welcome visitors. And Oku Japan is promoting responsible, sustainable tourism. Its focus includes “local...
In 1982, the International Whaling Commission established a moratorium on commercial whaling that remains in place to this day. A few member countries with a history of whaling, such as Norway and Iceland, still hunt whales commercially despite it...