As the economy boomed after the second world war, private bathrooms became increasingly common and the demand for bathhouses ...

It’s the one place I’m free from judgment and responsibility; where I become fully embodied,” says one Vogue writer of ...

TOKYO (SCMP): A Japanese man is facing a two-year prison sentence for secretly filming 1,000 women bathing in several hot springs using cameras embedded in fake rocks. The unidentified 31-year-old ...

The Japanese coined the phrase forest bathing, or shinrin-yoku, in 1982, when the nation's forestry ministry made relaxing among trees part of its national public health program. Forests blanket ...

He says moving from a heated living room to a cold changing room or bathroom ... the phenomenon likely explains a seasonal surge in deaths while bathing. Japan's Consumer Affairs Agency says ...