MAEBASHI -- Gunma Prefecture was named the most popular ... focus on supporting the relocation of families with children. (Japanese original by Azusa Hinata, Maebashi Bureau) ...

So, in actual fact, Gunma Prefecture experiences fewer earthquakes, at least based on the data presented. The central government’s 2020 National Seismic Hazard Maps for Japan, released in March ...

Ride-hailing services have been spreading across Japan amid a growing shortage of taxis and the absence of public ...

MEIWA, Gunma Prefecture--When Costco Wholesale opened its warehouse in a rural Japanese town not far from Tokyo last year offering hundreds of jobs at eye-popping pay, a nearby noodle shop chain ...

The largest producer of Daruma dolls in Japan is Takasaki City, Gunma Prefecture, where there are about 40 workshops. The nearby city of Kiryu has a different good-luck charm: decorated rakes that ...

When more than $20,000 worth of bonsai were stolen from Fukujyuen, a shop selling the carefully cultivated mini trees in Japan’s Gunma prefecture, Shuichi Baba felt anger but also deep sadness ...

Climbing steadily from the western fringe of the Kanto Plain, you make your way through tidy, prosperous rural communities in the foothills of the mountains of central Gunma Prefecture until you ...