At the back of the shrine’s sacred grounds is the grave of Itagaki Taisuke (1837–1919), a patriot from the Tosa clan in what is now Kōchi Prefecture who led the Freedom and People’s Rights ...

A tsunami advisory was issued for part of southwest Japan after a magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck Monday, but the warnings to ...

Tsunami warnings were issued for Miyazaki Prefecture, where the temblor was centered, in the southwestern island of Kyushu, ...

The company surveyed 4,700 Japanese people across the country, taking 100 from each prefecture. One of the questions asked was “Which prefecture do you think is the rival to your own and why?” which ...

The "Orange Route," a U.S. military training flight path stretching over the mountainous regions of Wakayama, Tokushima, ...

A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck southwestern Japan late on Monday ... kilometres around 18 kilometres off the coast of Miyazaki prefecture in the Kyushi region around 21:19 pm (1219 GMT ...

Writer Hannah Kirshner first moved to Yamanaka Onsen to better understand its craft culture. Almost 10 years later, she’s ...

It was once a thriving coal mining town with a population of over 100,000 people. But today, Yubari, located in Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido, is a ghost of its former self — with fewer than ...

By prefecture, Tokushima in western Japan topped the list with an average of 57.38 cases. Miyazaki in the southwest had 57.24 cases. Kochi in the west had 56.36 cases. Aichi in central Japan had ...