Police in Miyagi Prefecture have lost 20 SD memory cards containing about 1,000 crime-scene investigation photos, likely due ...

Syndicates are increasingly targeting middle- to upper-class individuals from across the world through something as harmless ...

Police in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, have arrested a 46-year-old man on suspicion of using his smartphone to film up a woman’s skirt at a shopping center. According to police, the incident occurred at ...

The Japan Institute for Health Security, a new organization that will advise the government on major outbreaks of infectious ...

SENDAI--As a come-on, Miyagi Prefecture hopes to be able to promise Indonesian and other Muslim workers they will be buried appropriately if they die in Japan. The prefectural government reached ...

Unseasonably hot weather has covered wide areas in Japan, with temperatures rising 30 degrees Celsius or higher in ...

Nakamura Miku left big city life to volunteer in the relief efforts following the Great Tohoku Earthquake of 2011, and the ...

TOKYO - Shinkansen bullet train services in north-eastern Japan resumed on March 26 after a more than eight-hour stoppage ...

In the wake of the rescue of two Japanese teens who had been lured into working for scam syndicates in Myanmar, concerns are ...

Memorial for independence fighter Former Prime Minister Kim Hwang-sik (L) confers the Ahn Jung-geun Oriental Peace Award on ...

A monument was erected at the municipal office of Minamisanriku, a town in Miyagi Prefecture, on Sunday to commemorate officials who lost their lives in the massive tsunami 14 years ago.

Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Pref., March 31 (Jiji Press)--The Air Self-Defense Force's Blue Impulse aerobatics team will make a ...