This eastern Japan city's government received two maintenance hole lids with designs featuring giant robots appearing in the ...

TSUKUBA, Ibaraki -- The Ibaraki Prefecture city of Tsukubamirai, northeast of Tokyo, is preparing to place foreign assistant language teachers (ALTs) at all kindergartens and day care facilities in ...

Ibaraki Prefectural Police have arrested a 45-year-old unemployed man on suspicion of murdering his 65-year-old mother, whose skeletal remains were found wrapped in a blue tarp in a field in the town ...

Ibaraki finally pulled out of the basement in a ranking of “attractive prefectures,” replaced at the bottom by Tochigi, whose stunned governor immediately cast doubts on the credibility of the ...

Aigawa Dam in Ibaraki City, Osaka Prefecture. I was able to participate in the pre-opening of GRAVITATE OSAKA, an activity park where you can walk across GODA BRIDGE or bungee jump from the bridge ...

IBARAKI, Osaka (Japan): The country’s longest pedestrian suspension bridge has opened in Ibaraki, Osaka Prefecture. The ...

In Ibaraki Prefecture, we explore how local wisdom has been passed down to the present day. We visit a town famous for organic farming, see how traditional silk fabric is made, and experience ...

Marking 80 years since the Tokyo air raids of World War II claimed approximately 100,000 lives, people gathered from the morning o ...

TSUKUBA, Ibaraki Prefecture--Residents here are voting online to determine the retirement allowance for the city mayor, who asked the public to decide how much they think he deserves. Around ...