The Sendai Aoba Festival, held each spring in the northeastern Japanese city, got underway on Saturday. The two-day event has ...

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 ...

SENDAI--In response to soaring living costs, an initiative that provides warm and nutritious meals to struggling residents ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo by Sendai Girls The “Final Boss” Meiko Satomura returns to the world championship scene as she competes for Sendai Girls‘ ...

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 ...

Fourteen years after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, disaster public housing complexes are seeing more residents who are older and people who weren’t hit by the disaster moving in.

SENDAI – The city of Sendai has shot dead a bear under a revised law that allows municipal governments to decide whether to shoot the animals in urban areas. The bear appeared near a residential area ...

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