Apples are a specialty of Aomori Prefecture, and images of six varieties of the fruit are printed on the six sides of the Aomorik Cube version. The all-red puzzle is more difficult to solve than a ...

The driving force behind the merger was a shared sense of crisis over survival amid a declining population. Aomori Prefecture ...

AOMORI--The governor of Aomori is set to sign off on storing spent nuclear fuel in the coastal town of Mutsu in this prefecture, launching Japan’s first non-power plant storage facility.

Aomori Prefecture is beautiful, but its northern climate can be harsh. Our cyclist enjoys the warmest of welcomes in communities that historically had to cooperate closely in everything in order ...

Record snowfall has hit the Tsugaru region of northern Japan's Aomori Prefecture, with snow reaching over 4.3 meters deep in one area.The sn･･･ ...

A bluefin tuna from Oma, Aomori Prefecture, which was purchased earlier in the day for 1.3 million USD, is presented to the media following the first tuna auction of the New Year at Tokyo's Toyosu ...

From the dynamic Nebuta festival of Aomori Prefecture to Fukushima Prefecture's stunning Azuma Mountain Range – not to mention an array of attractions in Akita, Iwate, Miyagi, Niigata and ...

A consortium led by JERA secured the rights to develop and operate a 615-MW wind generation project offshore Aomori Prefecture in the Sea of Japan. A consortium led by JERA Co. Inc. has secured ...

Shoichi Kudo was born in 1929, the son of a livestock trader in Aomori Prefecture. By all accounts, the Kudos were not rich and young Shoichi attended school without shoes. Despite the family’s ...