Sato, a 46-year-old native of Hanamaki, Iwate Prefecture, was working as a diving instructor in the southern Thai resort of Khao Lak when the quake and tsunami hit northeastern Japan. He was ...

James Hobbs, living in Japan for 30 years, teaches at a medical university in Iwate Prefecture. He takes us along on some hard weekend training with cycling friends and on a camping trip with his ...

This time we visit the idyllic mountain landscape and dramatic Sanriku coastline of Iwate Prefecture ... Otsuchi Sashiko began after the Great East Japan Earthquake, and is now shaping itself ...

KITAKAMI, Iwate Prefecture--Upmarket cashmere knit ... the globe as they expand sales channels for this plush piece of Japanese culture. The custom-order sweaters are made by workers who pay ...

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Japanese authorities began culling some 50,000 chickens Sunday after a bird flu outbreak at a farm in the northern Iwate Prefecture region. It is the 19th bird flu outbreak of the season in Japan ...