Located on the Sea of Japan, Ishikawa Prefecture once held a powerful place in feudal Japan. We can see this legacy today at ...

(Mainichi/Yoshitaka Fukuhara) Divers including Yoshitaka Isaji enter a structure at the former Chosei underwater coal mine as part of a project to collect remains of the victims of a 1942 flooding ...

In this photo taken on July 12, 2024, shows an ama diver fishing for this year's first catch of "mozuku" seaweed at Wajima Port in ... divers in southwestern Japan. Ama -- literally "sea women ...

Japan’s economy, though not growing by leaps and bounds, has inched back from the disruptions of the Covid-19 pandemic. The emergence of long-sought inflation has given the Bank of Japan room to ...

By Motoko Rich Kiuko Notoya and Hisako Ueno Reporting from Tokyo Japan’s governing party lost its majority in parliamentary elections on Sunday, as voters delivered an emphatic rejection of the ...

A Syrian resident of Japan is drawing on his own experience to help survivors of the Jan. 1 Noto earthquake. Salim Mazen has been delivering supplies and hope in equal measure.

This initiative by West Japan Railway Co (JR West) comes in response to several violent incidents on trains, including a knife attack in July 2023 that left three passengers injured. In a separate ...

“The flooding followed the earthquake in the same year,” said Junzo Yoshino, 84, in Wajima. His house was completely destroyed in the Jan. 1 quake. After staying at an evacuation shelter and friends’ ...

Monday marks one month since record-breaking downpours hit the Noto region in central Japan. People affected by flooding and landslides ... for a woman in her 30s in Wajima City who remains ...

SO IT DIDN’T DO ANY GOOD TO GO Roswell remains underwater as the city recovers from historic rainfall that brought severe flooding to the city on Saturday night. According to officials from the ...

The agriculture ministry said this year's flooding has resulted in a substantial loss of rice production. In response, the government is moving quickly to import 500,000 tons of rice and is ...

It's usually a serene two-and-a-half-hour ride on Japan's famously efficient bullet train. But the journey quickly descended into a zombie apocalypse, with passengers ...