Shizuoka is famous for it’s tea and the green rows of tea plantations make for a striking location from which to see Mt. Fuji. I was sure Mt. Fuji was stalking us. One minute, it was looming on our ...

The veteran farmer – also an unofficial wild boar hunter who traps the pesky fruit thieves on his property and turns them into inoshishi pork chops – started exporting to Singapore 15 years ago, and ...

Wake no Kiyomaro (733-799), a member of a noble family, is said to be enshrined here as a statue of an inoshishi, or Japanese wild boar. Legend has it that he injured his legs during a journey but was ...