Since the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, the country's foreign resident population has almost doubled to nearly 4 million. Some programs are aiming to pass on local know-how on disaster ...

After being made playable again, the piano has been placed at the airport for a limited period every year since 2021 to ...

Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture, the Tōhoku region’s largest city, is perhaps best known among gourmets for beef tongue. It was in 1948 that chef Sano Keishirō developed a method for preparing tasty beef ...

The return of the bone fragments of a 6-year-old girl who went missing in the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami came as a welcome surprise to her family in October last year, more than 14 years after ...

On the evening of December 6 the lights went on for this year’s Sendai Pageant of Starlight. During this winter festival in the capital of Miyagi Prefecture, the zelkova trees lining Jōzenji-dōri ...

Sendai Ikuei Gakuen High School won the Koshien national baseball title on Aug. 22, ending a century-long drought filled with heartbreak and humiliation for the Tohoku region.

Three prefectures in the Tohoku region, northeastern Japan, ravaged by a massive earthquake and tsunami 15 years ago have ...

The biggest earthquake to hit Japan in 140 years, measured 9.0 on the Richter scale according to the U.S. Geological Service. The quake created a 10-meter Tsunami that washed away houses, cars and ...

Authorities are implementing pre-emergency measures in six cities in Osaka, Hyogo and Miyagi prefectures to stop the novel coronavirus from resurging. The central government issued stronger preventive ...