AKITA—An elderly man died on May 2 after being found collapsed on the ground near a broken blade from a wind turbine here, ...

A man died on Friday after a wind turbine blade fell at a park in the city of Akita. A passerby made an emergency call at ...

A 40-meter-long blade has fallen off a wind turbine in the northern Japanese prefecture of Akita. A man was found collapsed near the site and later confirmed dead.

The Kochi Prefectural Government has launched a 30-million-yen (approx. $209,000) crowdfunding campaign using the hometown ...

After playing with the Akita dog, head to the city to see traditional sake brewing, a process registered by UNESCO as an intangible cultural heritage, at Akita Meijyou Co., Ltd., a long ...

Pyrotechnic artworks from the Omagari fireworks festival here will illuminate the sky over the 2025 Osaka Kansai Expo venue ...

Play with an Akita dog here just for you, enjoying its fluffiness and cuteness. After playing with the Akita dog, head to the city to see traditional sake brewing, a process registered by UNESCO as an ...

OTSU -- The first "democratic school" in Shiga Prefecture, western Japan, opened here this month, amid a growing trend in the ...

Looking for something to do while you're on break? Here are some of 2025 Golden Week Events in Japan from north to south.

The Port of Niigata in Japan recently welcomed the maiden calls of the AIDAstella and the Azamara Pursuit. Both ships arrived ...

San Francisco-based filmmaker Chris Columbus ( “Mrs. Doubtfire,” “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone”) and acclaimed ...

Then, the bright red Akita Shinkansen “Komachi” slowly approaches ... It also adds to the already seductive charm of Morioka, a city of fewer than 300,000 people, often seen as an unlikely ...