GERO, Gifu Prefecture—Complaints about naked and unruly visitors have led to a ban on bathing, except for feet, at a popular open-air riverside hot spring facility here. Gero city imposed the ...

GIFU--The city of Seki, Gifu Prefecture, will likely lose its status as the “belly-button of Japan” five years from now because of population shifts. The “navel” title refers to a ...

The video, taken at a Sushiro diner in Gifu city, appears to have inspired copycats. This has sparked a huge outcry online. On Twitter, Japanese users described the sabotage as "sickening" and ...

A Japanese octogenarian, who had part of her ear bitten off when she was mauled by a pit bull on a street corner nearly two ...

Metaverse - now this is a buzzword we've heard a lot recently. The city has (re)created part of the castle from the era of a samurai named Oda Nobunaga for the metaverse.