A fire broke out in a welding cable in the reactor building of the Tokai No. 2 Nuclear Power Plant in Ibaraki Prefecture, ...

Onosato, 24, has been promoted to yokozuna, the highest rank in sumo. In terms of speed, it was a record-breaking rise to the ...

The Japan Atomic Energy Agency said it plans to start producing clean hydrogen using heat from its High Temperature Engineering Test Reactor (HTTR) in Ibaraki Prefecture close to Tokyo by 2028.

The prefecture is just north ... the second largest freshwater body in Japan behind Shiga’s Lake Biwa. Northwest from the lake stands Mount Tsukuba, Ibaraki’s most celebrated peak, which ...

He continued, “Ibaraki Prefecture and other parts of Japan are struggling to secure personnel due to the shrinking number of residents. I saw firsthand that our collaboration with India can form ...

A deeper transformation of Japan’s work culture is essential to address falling birth rates, says political scientist Yasuo ...

Ibaraki Prefecture has reclaimed the dubious honor of least attractive of Japan’s 47 prefectures, according to an annual survey — one year after losing its cellar-dweller title to Saga Prefecture.

Onosato, 24, is the first Japanese sumo wrestler to achieve the rank of yokozuna, or grand champion, in years, and he's vowed ...

A magnitude 5 earthquake, which measured a strong 5 on the shindo (intensity) scale, was detected at a depth of 50 kilometers in southern Ibaraki Prefecture on Wednesday at 5:40 p.m. No tsunami ...

Seventy racing pigeons worth about 1.4 million yen (roughly $9,600) were stolen from a 73-year-old farmer in the city of ...

Police in Hokota, Ibaraki Prefecture, are investigating the theft of 600 unharvested ... According to the prefecture, Hokota City has the largest shipment of melons in Japan. NHK reported that similar ...