The total amount of losses exceeded ¥1.1 billion last year, increasing more than ¥300 million from the previous year.

Ishinomaki was mauled more than any other municipality by the magnitude-9.0 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami ... the Machikata district of Otsuchi in Iwate Prefecture had a pre-disaster ...

The number of burglaries targeting vacant houses that have not been occupied for a long time, has starkly increased in ...

Explaining Northern Japan to Rwandans. Hachimantai city in Iwate prefecture is located in the Tohoku region of Northern Japan ...

Mount Iwate’s rugged mountainscape and lava flow, reflecting its history as one of Japan’s most active volcanoes, are captured in the striking light-blue hue of the dial, evoking the purity of ...

For watchmaker Grand Seiko, the latest Evolution 9 hits very close to home. A homage to the manufacture that made it, the new ...

Japan launched a navigation satellite early Sunday morning (Feb. 2), the nation's first liftoff of 2025. An H3 rocket ...

Japan has launched a navigation satellite on its flagship H3 rocket as the country seeks to have a precise positioning system ...

Discover Japan’s Noto Peninsula on a 5-day Walk Japan tour blending cuisine, hot springs and culture while supporting ...

Land topography is usually formed gradually over long periods of time, but sometimes a single event can dramatically change things. On New Year's Day in 2024, a devastating earthquake in the Noto ...

Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward has reproduced a rare map from 1947 that shows how the postwar U.S. occupation of Japan had dominated and sprawled across the places locals walk past every day. It proved to ...

TOKYO, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Japan's factory activity fell at the fastest pace in 10 months on sluggish demand, a private-sector survey showed on Monday, with business confidence hitting a more than ...