When winter comes to Noto, a peninsula that juts north into the Sea of Japan, strange and bizarre creatures can be found in its waters. Among them, the blanket octopus spreads its billowing membrane ...

I find it annoying when visitors to Japan return marvelling at how ‘weird’ everything is. Just because their alphabet is indecipherable to a Westerner, the roads are dominated by pint-sized kei cars ...

Jan. 23 -- In the remote mountains of northern Japan sits a strange little town with an even stranger story. It’s a story of Jesus Christ, and it goes a little something like this: Jesus didn’t die up ...