Does it really rain 366 days a year on Yakushima island, the place that inspired Hayao Miyazaki’s 1997 animated film “Princess Mononoke”? Having visited the island several times, I was about ...

In a plot owned by the Yakushima town government in the north of the island, 3,825 kilograms of the herbicide are buried, the second most in the nation after 3,940 kg buried in Shizukuishi ...