The bear, which was as tall as about 1.5 meters, stayed on the grounds of an apartment in a residential neighborhood of the ...

SENDAI--In response to soaring living costs, an initiative that provides warm and nutritious meals to struggling residents for free has resumed here after a five-year hiatus. The aim is to show people ...

A bear about 1.5 meters long spent hours lurking in bushes in a residential area in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Sunday before being killed. After repeated emergency calls from residents, ...

SENDAI--The quiet environment where Atsushi Sato works as a bookstore clerk was turned upsidedown after he won the prestigious Akutagawa Prize for his novel “Arechi no Kazoku” (A family in the ...

Once a year Sendai bursts into a riot of color as the city streets are decorated with sweeping streamers mounted on tall bamboo poles. Look closely for glimpses of the seven traditional ornaments ...

India and Japan are working closely on economic security, which includes semiconductors. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on a two-day official visit to Japan for the 15th India-Japan Annual Summit ...

Date Masamune died in 1636 at the age of 70. Before his death, the famed warlord left instructions for a mausoleum to be built at Kyōgamine on the opposite bank of the Hirose River bordering the ...

The city of Sendai has shot dead a bear under a revised law that allows municipal governments to decide whether to shoot the animals in urban areas. The bear appeared near a residential area in ...

Sampling Japan’s beef is a priority among many international visitors, with words like Wagyu, Kobe, yakiniku and Matsusaka racing through their minds as they step off the plane. A word that’s usually ...

Two of Japan’s reactors—Units 1 and 2 of the Kyushu Electric Power Company’s Sendai nuclear power plant—have just restarted, and Unit 1 should begin generating electricity on August 14. Like all other ...