Authorities scrap Arakurayama Sengen park cherry blossom festival near Mount Fuji because of tourists trespassing, littering and ‘defecating in private yards’ A Japanese cherry blossom festival near ...

Mount Fuji stands tall and regal, surrounded only by its own wide alluvial plain. A beautiful mountain, it is also a deadly volcano that has erupted numerous times. Since the most ancient of days it ...

On Friday evening, the phones of the older generation of musicians in Chennai were abuzz with the news that one of the city’s best-known musicians of the 60s and 70s, Sengen Joachim, had passed away ...

An annual celebration at Asakusa's distinctly unspectacular Sengen Shrine, this festival offers exactly what it says on the tin: potted plants in all shapes, sizes and colours, exhibited and sold by ...