March 3 marks the annual festival called "Hinamatsuri," or Girls' Day, in Japan. Murakami City in Niigata Prefecture, along the Sea of Japan, was once a castle town. Currently, it is showcasing ...

Takeyuki Inagaki, Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s superintendent at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant, speaks at a press conference in Niigata Prefecture on Feb. 27, 2025.

After all, I didn’t speak the language; most of the Japanese I know comes from avidly watching various anime. The first leg of my Niigata itinerary involved getting from Narita to Echigo-Yuzawa ...

OJIYA, Niigata Prefecture--A traditional bullfighting festival opened here to say goodbye to a “gentle” giant and to pray for the end of the novel coronavirus pandemic. The event started on ...