Tuesday marks 18 months since a powerful earthquake hit areas along the Sea of Japan coast including Noto Peninsula on New ...

All is calm at Satoshi Yamazaki's rice farm, with its freshly planted rows of vivid-green seedlings, but a row over the cost ...

Niigata Prefecture has held the first public hearing, attended by residents, on the advisability of restarting reactors at Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings' Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant ...

A powerful earthquake exceeding magnitude 7 is likely to strike the Sea of Japan within the next three decades, a Japanese ...

The Japanese government Friday approved evacuation plans in the event of an accident at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power ...

A Japanese government panel says the chance of a magnitude 7 earthquake or stronger striking in the Sea of Japan off from the ...

A food bank launched in April by students at Niigata University distributed foodstuffs to struggling fellow students for the ...

The firm has decided to put the No. 6 reactor back online ahead of the No. 7 unit, which is ready to be restarted.

The country's earthquake research committee said the chance of a magnitude 7 earthquake or stronger striking in the Sea of ...

The 35th annual Koide International Snowball Fight in Uonuma in Niigata Prefecture, roughly 112 miles northwest of Tokyo, was the largest event of its kind in Japan, said 29-year-old head judge ...

Niigata is known for Japan's best koshihikari rice and sake, but it offers much more. We run the rule over 7 of the best places to eat there Japan's Niigata prefecture may be less than 90 minutes ...

Reporting from across Niigata Prefecture on Japan’s western coast Oct. 22, 2024 Scientists in Japan are racing against time to save the country’s most popular rice from the devastating effects ...