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

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 ...

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

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

HACHINOHE, Aomori Prefecture--A single high-end variety of cherry fetched 40,000 yen ($296) during this year’s first auction here of the fruit, drawing gasps among bidders and spectators.

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.

AOMORI--The governor of Aomori is set to sign off on storing spent nuclear fuel in the coastal town of Mutsu in this prefecture, launching Japan’s first non-power plant storage facility.

Cloudy with a high of 36 °F (2.2 °C) and a 40% chance of precipitation. Winds WSW at 12 mph (19.3 kph). Night - Partly cloudy with a 52% chance of precipitation. Winds variable at 6 to 15 mph (9 ...

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