This north Japan city is crowdfunding using the "hometown tax" donation system to keep an ancient early-summer draft horse ...

Iwate Prefecture established a disaster response headquarters at 3:50 p.m. on Feb. 26, and the Disaster Relief Law has been applied to this fire. According to the Japan Meteorological Agency ...

Japan's 'Baba Vanga' Ryo Tatsuki has issued a horrifying prediction for the country - that it will see a mega tsunami in July ...

Around 2,000 firefighters have been working from the air and ground to put out Japan's worst wildfire in half a century in the northeastern Iwate prefecture, local media reported on Tuesday.

Morioka, Iwate Pref., April 17 (Jiji Press)--The recent forest fire in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, burned ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan on Friday enacted a revised law to allow municipalities to authorize "emergency shootings" by hunters ...

Suicides among elementary, junior high and high school students in Japan hit a record high in 2024 despite the overall number of suicides in ...