Hokkaido, already known as the “kingdom of dairy farming,” has earned a new accolade for its beef. According to the central ...

Flight Petty Officer 2nd Class Setsuo Ishino, age 19, took off from Kanoya Air Base in Japan’s Kago­shima prefecture. He was ...

SATSUMA-SENDAI, Kagoshima Prefecture--A three-day evacuation exercise involving nearly 5,000 residents began on Feb. 14 close to a nuclear power plant here. The drill was the first organized by ...

Farmers have begun harvesting the first green tea leaves of the year in the central Japanese prefecture of Shizuoka.

Kagoshima City held Japan’s first market auction for 2025 shincha (new tea) on April 9, offering 79 lots totaling 3,924 kg from Tanegashima, Yakushima, and mainland Kyushu. The average price rose to ...

Let's have a look at Hisatsu Orange Railway's tourist train that has been running for over 10 years.

An explosive eruption rocked Sakurajima Volcano in Japan's Kagoshima Prefecture on March 25. The eruption sent a massive ash plume 8,200 feet above the crater. This was the volcano's 44th explosive ...

The Ehime Prefecture Ikata nuclear power plant and the Kagoshima Prefecture Sendai nuclear power plant did not report any unusual activities during the warning, its operators said. The earthquake ...