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Aokigahara ( 青木ヶ原, 'Blue Tree Meadow'), also known as the Sea of Trees (樹海, Jukai), is a forest on the northwestern flank of Mount Fuji on the island of Honshu in Japan, thriving on 30 square kilometres (12 sq mi) of hardened lava laid down by the last major eruption of Mount Fuji in 864 CE. [1] The western edge of Aokigahara, where ...
Murder of Rie Isogai. Rie Isogai (磯谷 利恵, Isogai Rie, 20 July 1976 [1] – 24 August 2007) was a 31-year-old Japanese office clerk who was robbed and murdered in Aichi Prefecture on the night of 24 August 2007 by three men who became acquainted through an underground message board. [2] [3] Because the three men met on an underground ...
of Japan Shared/multinational entries involving Japan Total UNESCO World Network of Biosphere Reserves: 8 — 8 UNESCO World Heritage List: 22: 1: 23 UNESCO Memory of the World Register: 5: 2: 7 UNESCO Global Geoparks Network: 10 — 10 UNESCO Creative Cities Network: 8 — 8 UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists: 24 — 24
Fuji in early summer seen from the International Space Station (May 2001) Mount Fuji is a very distinctive feature of the geography of Japan. It stands 3,776.24 m (12,389 ft) tall and is located near the Pacific coast of central Honshu, just southwest of Tokyo.
Taiga or tayga (/ ˈ t aɪ ɡ ə / TY-gə; Russian: тайга́), also known as boreal forest or snow forest, is a biome characterized by coniferous forests consisting mostly of pines, spruces, and larches. The taiga or boreal forest is the world's largest land biome. [1]
21,496 km 2 (8,300 sq mi) Country. Japan. Coordinates. 35°30′N 133°00′E / . 35.5°N 133°E. / 35.5; 133. The Nihonkai evergreen forests ecoregion (WWF ID: PA0427) covers a thin strip of land on the western coast (facing the Sea of Japan) of the island of Honshu in Japan. It is bounded on the east by the Nihonkai montane deciduous ...
As of 1 April 2018, 31 Forest Biosphere Reserves (森林生態系保護地域) have been designated, covering an area of 701,000 hectares (1,730,000 acres). Of these, four are also inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List as Natural World Heritage Sites: Shiretoko, Shirakami-Sanchi, Ogaswara Islands, and Yakushima, while Amami Islands, Yanbaru, and Iriomote have been nominated for joint ...
Nagoya Castle (名古屋城, Nagoya-jō) is a Japanese castle located in Nagoya, Japan . Nagoya Castle was constructed by the Owari Domain in 1612 during the Edo period on the site of an earlier castle of the Oda clan in the Sengoku period. Nagoya Castle was the heart of one of the most important castle towns in Japan, Nagoya-juku, a post ...