SENDAI--In response to soaring living costs, an initiative that provides warm and nutritious meals to struggling residents for free has resumed here after a five-year hiatus. The aim is to show people ...

SENDAI--The quiet environment where Atsushi Sato works as a bookstore clerk was turned upsidedown after he won the prestigious Akutagawa Prize for his novel “Arechi no Kazoku” (A family in the ...

JJK Season 3 had a full episode cut that will never be released, as confirmed by the director.

Once a year Sendai bursts into a riot of color as the city streets are decorated with sweeping streamers mounted on tall bamboo poles. Look closely for glimpses of the seven traditional ornaments ...

Date Masamune died in 1636 at the age of 70. Before his death, the famed warlord left instructions for a mausoleum to be built at Kyōgamine on the opposite bank of the Hirose River bordering the ...

Sampling Japan’s beef is a priority among many international visitors, with words like Wagyu, Kobe, yakiniku and Matsusaka racing through their minds as they step off the plane. A word that’s usually ...

Residents in public housing in Sendai, where many people who survived the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, live, are rapidly aging, and residents’ associations are struggling ...

Kyushu Electric Power Company has restarted unit 1 of its Sendai nuclear power plant in Japan's Kagoshima prefecture having completed construction of a bunkered back-up control centre as required ...