There’s no bigger, more fervently anticipated event in Japan than cherry blossom season, but unfortunately the pretty-in-pink ...

The long trail down Tohoku’s dramatic Pacific coast offers hikers the best of natural landscapes and cultural exchanges.

Aomori prefectural police have arrested a 47-year-old man and a 35-year-old woman, with whom he lives, on suspicion of abusing her elementary school-aged son. Police said Katsutoshi Takahashi, a farm ...