Bear cubs are seen playing at Kuma Kuma Bear Zoo in the city of Kitaakita, Akita Prefecture, in northeast Japan on May 9, ...

The Japanese government is planning to trial an artificial intelligence system for spotting wild bears to better deal with an ...

A report analyzing the population trends of municipalities nationwide estimated that about 40% of all municipalities in Japan ...

OGA, Akita Prefecture—Godzilla, the long-heralded “king of the monsters” in cinema, has also achieved rock star status here. A silhouette from a rock emerging from a reef in Shiosezaki ...

Bringing his 25 years of experience to Hong Kong at Sukiyaki Nakagawa, chef Kazuyuki Itagaki curates sukiyaki tasting menus ...

Not long ago, the municipal police in Beziers - France 's oldest town - moved their HQ to an 18th century chateau with ...

From sea to mountains, nature in Akita Prefecture is spectacular. As we ride through the gales of late fall, we see people preparing for the long snows of winter with pickles and preserves.

Alexandre Dumas recounted it in "The Vicomte of Bragelonne", and Leonardo DiCaprio portrayed him - among others - in the ...

Bears attacked multiple people in and near Akita Prefecture on Oct. 19, including at a central city bus stop and the entrance to a hospital in heavily populated areas. In Kita-Akita city six ...

In summer 2012, Putin received a present of an Akita-Inu dog puppy - the breed well known due to the Kachiko movie - from Governor of Japan’s Akita Prefecture Norihisa Satake TOKYO, December 3.

An activist blogger and a disbarred lawyer joined growing numbers of Chinese citizens looking to flee the country. “Leaving ...