One is spoiled for choice when it comes to onsen (hot springs) in Japan. Nowhere is this more evident than the island of Kyushu, with subterranean waters heated by no less than nine active volcanoes.

It was a cold February day in northern Japan, snow piled high outside the onsen locker room windows as I slipped out of my clothes.

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An elementary school classroom is seen in this file photo. (Mainichi/Buntaro Saito) ISE, Mie -- A cockroach was found in school lunch at an elementary school in the central Japan town of Minamiise, ...

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