Japan’s Akiba Festival in Niyodogawa features samurai parades and fire rituals, preserving a 200-year-old prayer for protection from disasters.

Police in Tsukuba City, Ibaraki Prefecture, have arrested a 45-year-old unemployed man on suspicion of assaulting four men and women outside JR Mito Station. According to police, the incident occurred ...

How would you reach out to the person next to you in times of disaster? That is the question Amy Takebe asks her students based on her experience in 2011. Amy Takebe was born and raised in Ibaraki ...

Chinese airlines are canceling all flights on 49 routes to Japan, a move that marks a further escalation of the high-profile economic pressure campaign over Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s ...

Police in Tokunoshima town, Kagoshima Prefecture, have arrested a 58-year-old man on suspicion of killing his 57-year-old wife in the mountains of Tokunoshima. According to police, Morihito Toyo, a ...

Lucknow (UP), January 28, 2026 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath met Junichi Ishidera, Vice Governor of Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, along with an eight-member high-level delegation ...

CHIBA — As serious injuries caused by bears rise, particularly in northeastern Japan, Chiba Prefecture stands out as the only prefecture on Honshu where bears do not live. There is no historical ...

A sake brewery in Ibaraki Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, is busy making sake in the bitter cold of winter. The "kan-jikomi" production method, which takes advantage of the low temperatures in winter, ...

The restart of a reactor at the world’s largest nuclear power plant has been suspended in Japan, a day after the process began, its operator, which also manages the wrecked Fukushima plant, said. But ...

INASHIKI, Ibaraki — There is a shopping street that greatly retains the atmosphere of the Showa era (1926-89) in the center of Inashiki, Ibaraki Prefecture. Located on the south side of Kasumigaura, ...