We all like to think we’re immune to scams and con artists around the world, but you never can tell when they’ll come for you ...

Japan on Friday provided South Korea with another batch of passenger lists from the 1945 sinking of a Japanese vessel that ...

More than a year on, Maritime Self-Defense Force Vice Adm. Kondo, 59, remains the only female SDF officer holding any of the ...

A flock of swans are visiting the "swan meeting plaza" near a river in the town of Fujisaki, Aomori Prefecture, to rest their wings. Every year, about 300 swans migrate to the area around November and ...

Snow is being removed along a winter-closed section of the "Hakkoda-Towada Gold Line" National Route 103 that connects the ...

Aomori, the capital of Aomori Prefecture in northern Japan, holds this frosty title. With a population exceeding 260,000, Aomori experiences up to 26 feet of snow annually, primarily between ...

Aomori Prefecture on the northern tip of Honshu Island alone experienced a whopping 139 centimeters of snow in January, three times the average amount and enough to be considered a natural disaster.

Takada, 76, a scallop fisherman at the Yomogita fishery port in Yomogita on the east side of the Tsugaru Peninsula in Aomori Prefecture, said 30 percent of his scallop fry under a year old died in ...

Three Japanese exchange students from Hirosaki Jitsugyou High School were treated to a full day of food and cultural ...

Japan’s government adopted new decarbonization targets aiming to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by more than 70% from 2013 levels over the next 15 years, approving a renewed energy plan to help meet ...

This year’s Levain Cup has heightened stakes, featuring a single-match knockout format among 54 competing teams grouped into seven categories. Albirex Niigata enters this tournament buoyed by their ...

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