NARA -- This western Japan city has seen increasing numbers of inbound visitors strolling around tourist spots wearing kimonos and their summer counterpart, yukata. Westerners in particular appear ...

Whether it’s strolling through the town in traditional summer yukata or hanging a wooden strip with a wish on the wind chimes ...

The 200 wrestlers wearing colorful “yukata” summer kimono arrived on a Shinkansen, ahead of the start of the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament on July 9. Such a train, which transports sumo ...

Tourists have seen temperatures soar in Crete this summer, with Greece experiencing its hottest June and July on record Summer 2024 was the Earth's warmest on record, according to the Copernicus ...

Summer is meant for using vacation days, whether your ideal trip involves a big city, an all-American national park, a relaxing beach or a small-town getaway. To decide the best summer vacations ...

As Southern California swelters under its most punishing heat wave of the year, international climate officials have confirmed that summer 2024 was Earth’s hottest on record. “During the past ...

As floodwaters coursed through Texas and Taiwan, as mosquito-borne viruses spread across the Americas, as lethal heat struck down children on hikes and grandparents on pilgrimage, the world’s ...

Supported by By Steven Kurutz Photographs by Sophie Park In addition to reporting from a beach on Cape Cod, Steven Kurutz interviewed fans of summer by phone. The vacationers were gone.