A Japanese woman in her 20s, later diagnosed with measles, visited Jiufen and traveled around Taipei by MRT, the Centers for ...

AKASHI, Hyogo Prefecture--Akashi city in January will become the first local government in Japan to introduce a partnership system that treats the children of same-sex couples as “family ...

AKASHI, Hyogo Prefecture--A local planetarium damaged in the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake will observe its 30th anniversary on Jan. 17 by stopping its turret clock for 12 hours from 5:46 a.m. to ...

The Osaka District Court has sentenced a 27-year-old unemployed man to 22 years in prison for killing his 19-year-old girlfriend in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, in 2024. According to the ruling on ...

Hospital visits for diarrhea have declined for the past two weeks, but last week’s 255,775 visits were still the most for the ...

AKASHI, Hyogo -- The juvenile ikanago sand eel fishing season, heralding the arrival of spring in west Japan's Seto Inland Sea, began on March 11 but ended the same day due to a poor catch.

A bento from Akashi, Hyogo Prefecture features a local octopus specialty. The container of this unique bento is also interesting as they're shaped the same as the pots used in traditional octopus ...

Night - Mostly cloudy. Winds ENE. The overnight low will be 34 °F (1.1 °C). Cloudy with a high of 48 °F (8.9 °C) and a 51% chance of precipitation. Winds variable at 4 to 14 mph (6.4 to 22.5 ...