In addition to mounting a piece of wire art on the wall, you can hang it from the ceiling with an ... Taichi Ikeda, left, was born in Hyogo Prefecture in 1980 and his wife Yuki was born in Osaka ...

The western Japan city of Kobe and nearby areas on Friday marked the 30th anniversary of the magnitude 7.3 earthquake that ...

Whirlpools occur when fast-moving and slow-moving tides collide. The Naruto Strait is an ideal location for this phenomenon, ...

A former member of the Hyogo Prefectural Assembly who took part in investigating Gov. Motohiko Saito’s workplace bullying allegations last year has died in an apparent suicide — the third ...

The local politician was serving his fifth term and belonged to the Hyogo Citizens Union, an assembly faction comprising Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan members and others. Following ...

The police chief of Hyogo Prefecture in western Japan has made a rare comment about a rumor on social media that a former prefectural assembly member was facing arrest. He called the information ...

KOBE -- A now 88-year-old man who narrowly survived the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake that devastated this west Japan city still ... farming family in Takasago, Hyogo Prefecture, Fujimoto started ...

Open from April to November, The Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route, often called the "Roof of Japan," is a spectacular ... the Kurobe Dam and Tateyama Snow Wall. Covering approximately 37 kilometers ...

AKASHI, Hyogo Prefecture--A local planetarium damaged ... The planetarium, the oldest in Japan, stands on the meridian of 135 degrees east longitude, which establishes Japan Standard Time.

Fukusaki (福崎町) is a town located in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. Kunio Yanagita, a scholar and folklorist who has been called the ...

TOKYO, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- Japan's key stock index rebounded for the first time in six trading days on Thursday, following the overnight rally in U.S. tech stocks. The benchmark Nikkei stock index ...