Escape Japan's more popular tourist hubs and head to a less-visited, mountainous region with festivals and delicious food offerings throughout the year.

The wakame seaweed harvest has started in the sea near Akita Prefecture and other areas. On February 23, a harvesting event was held in the city of Oga. About 40 people, including elementary ...

YUZAWA, Japan >> The Inukko Matsuri (Yuzawa Inukko Dog Festival), a traditional Lunar New Year festival in which people make ...

Three workers died Friday morning after collapsing inside a manhole at a sewer construction site in the city of Oga, Akita Prefecture, according to police. The incident occurred around 9:30 a.m ...

YUZAWA, Akita Prefecture—As a taxi driver escorted three Australians into JR Yuzawa Station's tourist information center here, an employee was hit with an unfortunate sense of deja vu.

People in Akita Prefecture, northeastern Japan, have flown kites in a festival to mark the first signs of spring as the snow ...

TASS/. A Siberian cat called Mir (Russian for "peace"), which Russian President Vladimir Putin gave to the governor of Japan's northern Akita Prefecture Norihisa Satake in 2012, has died.

Temperatures are expected to rise across Japan through the weekend, reaching levels normally seen in April and May. Large ...

YOKOTE, Akita Prefecture--Grossed out but kinda like it? Welcome to the genre of “kimokawaii,” or creepy-cute. Sweets shaped like bee larvae look wiggly and weird. Whoa! Creepy-cute.

Night - Mostly cloudy. Winds ESE at 6 mph (9.7 kph). The overnight low will be 37 °F (2.8 °C). Cloudy with a high of 47 °F (8.3 °C) and a 51% chance of precipitation. Winds variable at 5 to 11 ...