Kansai Electric Power will begin surveys for the construction of a new nuclear power reactor at its Mihama power station in ...

People around the world are fascinated by dinosaurs and the prehistoric world in which they lived. In Japan, the country's ...

The art of making spectacles Sabae, located on Japan’s main Honshu island near the city of Fukui, has been producing quality eyewear for more than a century. It all started in 1905, when a local ...

The Oriental Storks were once extinct in Japan. But thanks to the dedicated efforts of people in Toyooka, Hyogo Prefecture, ...

FUKUI, Japan (Kyodo) -- An aging nuclear reactor in central Japan's Fukui Prefecture was restarted Wednesday, becoming the country's first nuclear unit to operate beyond the government-mandated 40 ...

This is where you’ll find Fukui’s beloved Heisenji Hakusan Shrine. Once the largest religious settlement in Japan, it was originally founded as a Buddhist temple in 717. According to legend, during ...

A suicide prevention group will dispatch a drone to monitor remote areas around Tojinbo in Sakai, Fukui Prefecture — whose lonely cliffs remain romanticized in popular imagination as a ...

The Fukui prefectural government felt forced to look outside Japan because it faces a chronic shortage in elderly care workers. In March, there were 4.12 job openings in the elderly care sector ...

More than a dozen cases of beachgoers being bitten by dolphins off the coast of Fukui Prefecture have been reported during the summer of this year. A total of 15 cases were reported this summer, a ...

Fukui, Japan's least-known prefecture to international tourists, is home to one of the most impressive dinosaur museums in Japan, if not the world. With a collection of about 40 different species of ...

The governor of Japan's Fukui Prefecture today approved the restart of three reactors owned by Kansai Electric Power Company - Takahama units 1 and 2, and Mihama unit 3. His consent was the final ...

FUKUI--For the fifth time running, Fukui Prefecture ranked No. 1 on an overall happiness index among the nation’s 47 prefectures. “We have been forging ahead with policies in child-rearing ...