The rainy season usually lasts from June to July, but for a large swath of the country — from Kyoto to Kyushu — it ended ...

OFUNATO, Iwate — Yoshihiro Chiba, 50, who recently retired from a job as a firefighter in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, now intends to establish a company in the city to educate the public on preventing ...

An 81-year-old woman was found dead in her home in Kitakami City, Iwate Prefecture, on Friday. Police said she was apparently killed by a bear. According to police, Seiko Takahashi was found in the ...

TOKYO: A woman, 81, who died in her home in Kitakami, Iwate Prefecture, on Friday (July 4) is believed to have been attacked by a bear, authorities said.

An elderly woman has died after an apparent bear attack at her home in Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

The image of Ohtani and his canine companion, better known as "Decoy," is attracting visitors to the site in the northeastern Japan City of Oshu in Iwate Prefecture.

The "Otaue-sai" rice planting festival, which prays for a good harvest in autumn, was held on June 25 at a rice field of Omiwa Shrine in the city of Sakurai, Nara Prefecture. Eleven men and women ...

Authorities of Kamaishi in Iwate Prefecture, which hosts the Hashino iron mining and smelting site, said its tax revenues for the projected preservation costs are decreasing due to a decline in ...

Scientists have proposed building the International Linear Collider, which would be the longest linear collider in the world, in the Kitakami mountains in the Iwate prefecture of northern Japan.

For more than 40 years, the Ohasama Study, named after a town in Iwate Prefecture, has tracked the long-term health of Ohasama's local population.

Los Angeles Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani is among 12 active Japanese MLB players that will be celebrated with custom manhole covers in Japan.