In a related development, a day after the tremor, the Japanese government released updated estimates concerning the potential impact of a major earthquake originating from the Nankai Trough. This ...

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

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

ROKKASHO, Aomori Prefecture—Frustration, impatience and costs continue to soar as Japan’s nuclear fuel cycle policy has again reached an impasse. The completion date for a spent nuclear fuel ...

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 ...

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

From there, it's another 35 minutes by car.

Tokyo, March 30 (Jiji Press)--While 80 years have passed since the end of organized fighting on Ioto, widely known as Iwo ...

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.