We were standing in the open, wood-paneled kitchen of Mirukashi Salon, a hyper-seasonal culinary retreat set in the hilly countryside of Kyushu ... Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost island ...

If you read Kyushu's palms ... square miles man-made island, was the country's first international trading post, and the only place in the country where non-Japanese merchants were allowed ...

The operator of a once-popular Japanese theme park that replicated a 17th century Dutch village has gone bust, becoming one ...