Police in Gifu City, Gifu Prefecture, have arrested a 35-year-old unemployed man on suspicion of sexually assaulting a teenage girl in a park. Police said the suspect, Shohei Haga, is also accused of ...

After Tsuyo Wada of Guj passed away on June 24, 2019, Okagi Hayashi was named the oldest person in Gifu Prefecture at the age ...

Unlike the highly spiced curry that is his namesake, Vindaloo is more on the sweet side. When he was 2 years old, he and a ...

From learning to carve woodblocks or make pottery, to observing artisans at work, tourists can help sustain and revive these ...

Okagi Hayashi, a 115-year-old woman recognized as Japan's oldest living person, has died from heart failure over the weekend, ...

“Made up of two areas, the mountainous north and the river-rich south, the Gifu prefecture offers a traditional Japanese ...

NAKATSUGAWA, Gifu Prefecture--A construction company here that farms sturgeon as a side business said it has produced “golden caviar,” a delicacy that can cost 15 times the price of the more ...

A ceremony has been held at a gateway to Japan's Northern Alps to mark the start of the climbing season. Our site uses ...

Sunny with a high of 80 °F (26.7 °C). Winds variable at 7 to 9 mph (11.3 to 14.5 kph). Night - Clear. Winds variable at 3 to 8 mph (4.8 to 12.9 kph). The overnight low will be 46 °F (7.8 °C ...

On the evening of August 18, a significant earthquake measuring magnitude 5.0 struck Nagano Prefecture, Japan. The tremor was strong enough to be felt across a wide area, including parts of the Chubu ...

Police believe Nishiwaki was alive at least until mid-August. Police suspect that Fujii was chatting from her smartphone to ...

ChatGPT’s Ghibli image craze has gone so viral that it’s being brought up in Japanese courts as copyright concerns rise.