Major convenience store operator FamilyMart Co. has conventionally been franchised to teams of two, often husband and wife, but recent change ...

ISHINOMAKI, Miyagi Prefecture--This coastal city has been ... But more problems are in store for Ishinomaki. The city government's annual budget ballooned to about 200 billion yen a year due ...

He advised the man to buy gold at a precious metals store in Miyagi Prefecture. Wanting to prove his innocence, the man bought 2.4 kilograms of gold bullion worth around 35.4 million yen at the ...

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MARUMORI, Miyagi — Production of heso daikon radish, a local specialty, was at its peak in Marumori, Miyagi Prefecture in late December. Heso daikon is prepared by cutting the vegetable into thick ...

With an increasing number of Muslims living in Japan, there has been a growing demand for burial plots to conform with their ...

Founders Eri Miyagi and Miki Nomura look to the past to ensure a future for centuries-old Japanese agricultural and culinary ...

Kohl’s is slated to close more than two dozen store locations across the United States. On Jan. 9, the retailer announced a series of “real estate changes” for the new year, including the ...

China's relations are starting to improve with Japan, India and other countries that former U.S. President Joe Biden courted, ...

Uncertainty about Trump’s policies is prompting both China and Japan to seek a stable relationship, said Taizo Miyagi, an expert on Japanese diplomacy at Chuo University in Tokyo. A Japanese ...

Uncertainty about Trump’s policies is prompting both China and Japan to seek a stable relationship, said Taizo Miyagi, an expert on Japanese diplomacy at Chuo University in Tokyo. A Japanese ...

India has lodged a “solemn protest” with China over the formation of two counties in the Hotan Prefecture that incorporates territory of India’s Ladakh. Speaking to reporters during the ...