Enjoy four seasons of natural beauty, festivities and outdoor activities off the beaten track in Japan's north. North of Tokyo, the Tohoku region unfolds across seven prefectures that offer a ...

Japan will bar foreigners from acquiring farmland if their visas are set to expire soon, in a bid to prevent misuse of such land amid high prices for rice and other food items, the farm ministry said.

TOKYO -- Families of people killed in the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami visited beaches and memorial cenotaphs in Japan's northeastern Tohoku region on Tuesday to pray for the souls of the ...

Tohoku, Fukushima and Tokyo. Locations included Higashi-Matsushima Farm, which was previously an Elementary School abandoned due to the Great East Japan Earthquake and was refurbished as a state ...

Fourteen years after the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami, communities in the Tohoku region grappling with declining populations are focusing on young people and women to aid recovery.

Unseasonably hot weather has covered wide areas in Japan, with temperatures rising ... Fierce winds are blowing in the southern Tohoku region along the Pacific coast, due to a low-pressure system ...

IWAKI, Fukushima Prefecture—A weed described as “the worst alien species on the planet” has been discovered for the first time in the northeastern Tohoku region, alarming local farmers and ...

The agency has urged residents in the Tohoku region to be on alert for additional ... which subducts the North American plate on the land side. The agency said the mechanism is different from ...

(Mainichi/Kenji Yoneda) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan will bar foreigners from acquiring farmland if their visas are set to expire soon, in a bid to prevent misuse of such land amid high prices for rice ...