The three — all residents of the city of Akita — had been repairing sewer pipes since early that morning, according to the ...

I recently visited Akita Prefecture and toured several sites where bears had been spotted. To my surprise, many areas were far more urban than I’d imagined—it’s no longer the case that bears ...

Two green bulldozers smoothly spread a mixture of pebble and cement at the construction site of a mountainous dam, followed ...

The first international boarding school in Akita Prefecture will open here September, and the local government is pinning its hopes ...

Rice prices in Japan have continued to surge since last summer's "rice crisis of the Reiwa era." Despite the government's ...

The wakame seaweed harvest has started in the sea near Akita Prefecture and other areas. On February 23, a harvesting event was held in the city of Oga. About 40 people, including elementary ...

TASS/. A Siberian cat called Mir (Russian for "peace"), which Russian President Vladimir Putin gave to the governor of Japan's northern Akita Prefecture Norihisa Satake in 2012, has died.

While Japan's convenience store market may be considered oversaturated in terms of the sheer number of stores, major operator ...

From sea to mountains, nature in Akita Prefecture is spectacular. As we ride through the gales of late fall, we see people preparing for the long snows of winter with pickles and preserves.

Temperatures are expected to rise across Japan through the weekend, reaching levels normally seen in April and May. Large amounts of snow may melt quickly in some regions, triggering avalanches and ...

The firm started the services in the cities of Minamiboso and Tateyama in Chiba Prefecture on Monday, and will begin them in ...

Night - Mostly cloudy. Winds ESE at 6 mph (9.7 kph). The overnight low will be 37 °F (2.8 °C). Cloudy with a high of 47 °F (8.3 °C) and a 51% chance of precipitation. Winds variable at 5 to 11 ...