A Russian Navy surveillance ship made a nine-day cruise in the vicinity of Japan’s southwest islands approaching as close as ...

On March 11, 2011, a magnitude-9.0 earthquake sent a tsunami hurtling towards Japan's east coast, killing 20,000 people, wiping out 120,000 buildings and sparking a partial meltdown at the Fukushima ...

With the arrival of the hay fever season, people in Japan are complaining about allergy symptoms and some blame the use of ...

Tohoku Electric Power Co., Inc. (Head Office: Sendai city, Miyagi prefecture, Japan; President and Representative Director: Kojiro Higuchi; Tohoku Electric Power) and transcosmos inc. hereby announce ...

A growing number of local governments plan to cash in on Japan’s post-pandemic tourist boom by adopting accommodation taxes, ...

Police in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, have arrested a 70-year-old woman on suspicion of attempted murder after she strangled an unemployed man in his 40s at his home. According to police, the incident ...

Shinkansen bullet train services in Japan have been suspended or delayed due to heavy snow on Saturday morning.

In Japan’s bucolic northeast, Hoshino Resorts KAI Akiu breathes new life into a sleepy hot spring village without betraying ...

Tohoku Shinkansen services also were temporarily suspended between Sendai and Morioka stations. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Sonoma’s Maki Aizawa, a co-curator of the remarkable Books Become Art exhibition at the Sonoma Valley Museum, talks with Anna ...

The Miyagi Prefectural Government in northeastern Japan invited ambassadors to Japan, representatives, and other officials ...

The Miyagi Prefectural Government in northeastern Japan invited ambassadors to Japan, representatives, and other officials from 11 countries/regions ...