The city of Choshi in Chiba Prefecture is famous for its production of melons. Various varieties, such as the region's signature "Amusu melon," are growing well. Amusu melon is characterized by ...

Kuki Shrine in the town of Asahi, Yamagata Prefecture, considers air a sacred object where gods reside. On June 7, the Air Festival was held at the shrine, and a dance by shrine maidens was ...

A revised timeline has not been disclosed. Rohm began converting a 400,000-square-meter site in Kunitomi, Miyazaki Prefecture, in 2023 to combine SiC wafer production with power semiconductor ...

A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.9 has hit southwestern Japan, the country's Meteorological Agency said Monday. Tsunami warnings were issued for Miyazaki Prefecture, where the ...

They are grown in the Miyazaki prefecture in the south of Japan and are also known as the “Egg of the Sun.” The expensive, bright red mangoes come in a nice red box with Japanese writing on it ...

A 36-year-old man went on trial Tuesday, charged with killing his 40-year-old female colleague in Yamanashi Prefecture last year. In the opening session of his lay judge trial at the Kofu District ...

Unconfirmed reports in Japan, citing an unnamed company source, have suggested that Nissan is considering closing two plants in Kanagawa Prefecture as part of its restructuring plans. The plants ...

Saitama Prefecture. Police said Deng Hongpeng, a Chinese man who works in the demolition industry, turned himself at a police station in Misato at around 8:30 a.m. on Sunday, NHK reported. He was ...

NOBEOKA, Miyazaki Prefecture--The backbreaking work of sowing and harvesting rice by hand could soon fall exclusively to drones and robots under an ambitious agricultural program taking shape here.

Sunny with a high of 87 °F (30.6 °C). Winds variable at 4 to 7 mph (6.4 to 11.3 kph). Night - Mostly clear. Winds variable at 2 to 8 mph (3.2 to 12.9 kph). The overnight low will be 60 °F (15.6 ...

In 1985, two friends and longtime collaborators — Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata, fresh off the success of their recent project Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind — founded a company that ...