The Ishinomori Manga Museum, situated at the mouth of the Kyū-Kitakami River where it flows into Ishinomaki Bay, is dedicated to manga artist and author Ishinomori Shōtarō, a native of Miyagi ...

The Mayor of Ishinomaki in comments to the press last ... a piece on the successful reopening of the Ishinomori Manga Museum, and a feature on a local restaurants that has just reopened.

These spots make Ishinomaki the ideal pilgrimage for visitors wishing to ... the area has been transformed into a vast green space filled with saplings. A small museum offers detailed information ...

ISHINOMAKI, Japan, April 22 ... now sits alongside world-renowned Pulitzer Prize winning papers housed in the museum. "I haven't even processed what this all means," Takeuchi said, admitting ...

ISHINOMAKI, Japan — Nobody tweeted or blogged or e-mailed. They didn't telephone either. Bereft of electricity, gasoline and gas, this tsunami-traumatized town did things the really old ...

Ishinomaki was mauled more than any other municipality by the magnitude-9.0 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami that struck on March 11, 2011. Close to 4,000 residents lost their lives.

Takahashi is one of a small group of businessman determined to rebuild Ishinomaki, a city of around 150,000 on the coast of northeastern Japan. The tsunami caused widespread damage here ...

Galvanized by the March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, the manager of a kimono fabric store in the city of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, began crafting kokeshi dolls in 2014 to promote his ...