A credit union here is suspected of using the names of depositors--including a dead client--to create bogus accounts and extend fake loans to conceal its financial difficulties, the Asahi Shimbun ...

It's the kind of encouragement the prefecture is hoping for ... This move has become a major issue for Iwaki City. Like other communities in Fukushima, the fishing industry is a major part of ...

On January 31, police first accused Kishinami of assisting in the suicide of a woman, aged in her 20s, from Iwaki City, ...

A 43-year-old woman originally from Futaba who now lives in the Fukushima Prefecture city of Iwaki expressed her disappointment: "Seeing those sakura always made me feel like I was back home in ...

At around 1:40AM on May 9, a laundromat was robbed in the city of Iwaki in Fukushima Prefecture. In this security footage, you can see 3 men dressed all in black with hoods get out of a white vehicle.

A spotted seal pup has been born at Aquarium Asamushi in this north Japan city for the first time in two years, delighting ...

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About 16 kilometers south of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power ... Tanji temporarily evacuated from the city of Iwaki to Gunma Prefecture. There, she served as the plaintiff ...

An aquarium in the northern Japanese city of Aomori has a new baby spotted seal. It's the first pup to be born there in two ...

Following the 2011 accident at TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), the IAEA and the Fukushima Prefecture agreed to cooperate on radiation monitoring and remediation. The Practical ...

The robot stone statue outside the home of Shinichi Takamatsu is seen in the city of Fukushima on March ... who evacuated from Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, after the town was severely hit by ...