Shirakawa-go in Gifu Prefecture is one of Japan's snowiest regions. It's famous for its traditional thatched-roof Gassho-style homes. The triangular roofs distribute the weight of heavy snow ...

TAKAHAMA, Aichi Prefecture--After blowing the roof off box offices, the hugely popular “Demon Slayer” anime series is now being adopted into traditional-style housetop ornaments to let fans ...

In the heart of the Japanese mountains, the villages of Shirakawa-go and Gokayama are home to treasures of traditional Japanese architecture: thatched cottages with sloping roofs, designed to ...

At 5:30 p.m., 108 lights lit up 32 thatched roofs, and the beautiful gassho-zukuri ... Note: Gassho is the act of joining a pair of hands in prayer. Japanese original Easy Japanese news is taken ...