At Tohoku University, a growing number of employees hired as regular staff with no expiry dates on their contracts are being ...

Compared to an average year, the rainy season ended a day earlier in the Kanto-Koshin region, five days earlier in Hokuriku ...

The rainy season appears to have ended in the Kanto-Koshin region of eastern Japan, including Tokyo, as well as in the ...

As residents of Japan battle scorching heat, the Japan Meteorological Agency said on Friday that the rainy season is likely ...

People say they remember where they were when they saw the live footage of the tsunami crossing the coastline north-east of Tokyo, in an area called Tohoku. Nearly 20,000 people perished.

Yet because of what the Tohoku region has endured, its people may have the stoicism to face what comes ahead, says Hirai. “Despite their poverty, or because of it, the Tohoku people have internalized ...

The people of Tohoku have adapted to the harsh and long winters by being extremely flexible and creative in their daily lives. A small example is the numerous types of pickled radishes they ...

The lives of many people in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures, the three prefectures that bore the brunt of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, are still in shambles. Many people in the ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency announced on July 18 that the rainy season has likely ended in the Kanto-Koshin, Hokuriku and ...

Toyota President Issues Statement Regarding Tohoku Quake, Promises Assistance to Affected People Following a visit to Japan’s hugely devastated Miyagi Prefecture, Toyota president Akio Toyoda ...