Fukui Prefecture had the highest proportion of sites in flood zones at 66 per cent. Read more at straitstimes.com.

About 4,000 potential sites for temporary housing for disaster survivors are located in flood-prone areas, according to a ...

Four My Number cards were returned in April and May in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture ... Thirteen residents of Saga and five in Gifu voluntarily returned their My Number cards in June, though ...

A strong earthquake of magnitude 6.4 jolted Japan’s Ishikawa and other central Japan prefectures on Tuesday, the country’s weather agency said. However, there were no immediate reports of injuries or ...

Gifu Prefectural Police have arrested a 25-year-old police officer on suspicion of having sex with a 16-year-old girl and filming the act in a hotel last year. Police said Haruki Takeyama, a police ...

A three-scroll document written 87 years after the Honnoji incident by Sekiya Masaharu, a military scholar in the Kaga domain, which is now part of Ishikawa and Toyama prefectures, puts everything ...

Off the beaten track compared with Nikko’s better-known sightseeing spots, Ryuoko Gorge is the perfect location for a quiet escape into nature. A 7km trail along the gorge is an easy 90-minute one-way ...

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Japan is an archipelago made up of four main islands and more than 6,000 small ones, although just over 400 of these are inhabited. Among the big four, Hokkaido is the northernmost island, Honshu is ...

Users can search procurement notices covered by the WTO Agreement on Government Procurement, Japan-EU Economic Partnership Agreement or Japan-UK Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement. This ...

Planning to visit Japan this autumn for captivating fall foliage? Get ready for a visual feast! As famous as cherry blossoms, Japan's autumn season paints landscapes with breathtaking hues. From ...