A strong earthquake struck off the coast of Japan on New Year’s Eve, registering at a 6.0 in magnitude, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). No tsunami warnings were issued ...

NISHIMEYA, Aomori Prefecture--While riot police officers are authorized to shoot bears to combat an alarming rise in bear-related injuries and deaths across Japan, the Nishimeya village office here ...

On Jan. 1, Aomori Bank and Michinoku Bank, both headquartered in the city of Aomori, merged to form Aomori Michinoku Bank, marking the first consolidation of two regional banks within the same ...

Record snowfall in January has severely damaged apple orchards in Aomori, northeast Japan, the country’s largest apple-producing region, with authorities fearing losses could exceed 10 billion yen ...

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). In Japan’s under-explored Tohoku region, the vast prefecture of Aomori unfolds as a landscape of bucolic plains and peaks. For ...

HACHINOHE, Aomori -- A movement is afoot in Aomori Prefecture to lift it out of last place in a national ranking of average life expectancy by encouraging residents to reduce the amount of salt in ...

Aftershocks continued into the morning of Dec. 9 following a magnitude-7.5 earthquake that struck off Aomori Prefecture, injuring at least 30 people, triggering a tsunami and severing water supplies.

AOMORI -- The annual Aomori Nebuta Festival, one of Japan's most popular summer events, kicked off here on Aug. 2. When the starting gun was fired at 7 p.m., large floats roughly 5 meters tall and 9 ...

Some 890 tons of spent nuclear fuel from Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings are being stored at Japan Nuclear Fuel's reprocessing plant under construction in Aomori Prefecture — the first time a ...

The captivating scene of row upon row of vermillion torii skirting the lush forest and manicured Japanese garden of Takayama Inari Shrine in the city of Tsugaru, Aomori Prefecture, is a sight to ...

Twenty-one feet of snow – enough to bury a two-story house. And then some. That’s how much snow fell last year in Aomori City, in the northern Tohoku region of Japan. But it was just another winter in ...