Nakamura Miku left big city life to volunteer in the relief efforts following the Great Tohoku Earthquake of 2011, and the subsequent tsunami. In the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi prefecture, she was ...

Unseasonably hot weather has covered wide areas in Japan, with temperatures rising 30 degrees Celsius or higher in ...

Head to the unsung Japanese region of Tohoku to discover its traditional inns, and immerse yourself in the thermal waters ...

North of Tokyo, the Tohoku region ... viewing in Japan, summer brings spectacular festivals. Take the magnificent Aomori Nebuta Matsuri, held every August 2-7 in Aomori City, which sees nightly ...

Generations of Tohoku residents broke out in cheers and ... They were meant to be No. 1 in Japan,” Sato said. Daisuke Yoshikawa, 44, an ace pitcher for the 1996 Sendai Ikuei team that played ...

And when creative inspiration has piqued your appetite, head to Yamagata City ... as Tohoku's performing arts and unique food traditions reflect a deep reverence for its landscape. Beyond Japan's ...

Many of Tohoku University’s facilities are built around and within the ancient war grounds of the city of Sendai. In 1913, Tohoku became the first university in Japan to admit female students. Tohoku ...

East Japan Railway, or JR East, said Tuesday that it will resume from Friday operating coupled trains on the Tohoku Shinkansen line, which have been suspended since last week. JR East suspended ...

(James Whitlow Delano) After the Tohoku earthquake spawned a tsunami which tore through northeastern Japan on March 11 ... Iwate Prefecture, a city almost wiped out by a tsunami arriving 30 minutes ...

The cherry blossom season announcement comes just a day after Japan witnessed its first bloom of the year in the southwestern ...