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Over five years, 372 boats thought to be from North Korea have reached Japan, with 77 bodies
The number of cases in which wooden boats believed to be from North Korea were found either adrift off the Sea of Japan coast or washed up on Japanese shores totaled 372 over the five years from fiscal 2013, the government has said. A total ...
The city of Hakui in Ishikawa Prefecture is using organic rice, which is grown without pesticides or fertilizers, to compete in a growing global market. With crop prices expected to drop after the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership goes into effect at the ...
More than 20,000 ordered to evacuate as rain lashes central and northeastern Japan
More than 20,000 people were ordered to evacuate in parts of central and northeastern Japan on Friday as heavy rain sparked flooding. The Meteorological Agency also warned of landslides and flooding in other areas as a front bringing heavy rain was expected to move south ...
World's first cloned cow dies of old age in Ishikawa Prefecture
The world's first cloned cow died of old age Monday, according to the prefectural government of Ishikawa. The female cow, Noto, was 19 years and 10 months old when she passed away. Officials announced Tuesday that an autopsy showed she was not suffering from any diseases ...
Ishikawa Gov. Masanori Tanimoto was handily re-elected to a seventh term Sunday by besting sole challenger Emi Kokura in a race that set a record low for turnout and made him the nation's longest-serving governor. "Winning seven terms was not my goal as governor," Tanimoto ...
Seven bodies found in capsized wooden boat likely from North Korea
The discovery comes after suspected cases of North Korean boat arrivals rose to a record high last year since comparable data became available in 2013.
Missing our Thanksgiving feast in Japan, with all its bustle and chaos
A free-range turkey supplier in Ishikawa Prefecture offers nostalgic North Americans a taste of home.
Central Japan libraries report finding yearbooks with pages torn out
Numerous pages of school yearbooks kept in libraries in six prefectures in central Japan were found to have been ripped out, it has emerged. The latest cases were discovered in five municipal libraries in the cities of Nanao, Kaga and Hakusan in Ishikawa Prefecture. The ...
Kanazawa Ishikawa Pref. The body of a female high school student, her hands and mouth bound with duct tape, has been discovered in an abandoned home in Noto, Ishikawa Prefecture, police said Saturday. The body, which had multiple stab wounds, was discovered Friday night and later ...
Ishikawa firm's styrofoam domes find favor with farmers seeking disaster-proof growing environment
For years, Katsuyuki Kitagawa dreamed of living in a comfortable home in the shape of a domed manju (dumpling), minus the bean paste. For over a decade his firm, Japan Dome House Co., based in Kaga, Ishikawa Prefecture, has come about as close to that ...
The Ishikawa Prefectural Police Wednesday arrested a 60-year-old director of Hokkoku Shimbun, a newspaper based in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, on suspicion of smuggling Rush, a so-called dangerous drug, into Japan. According to the police, Hajime Saga of Kanazawa allegedly imported 12 bottles of liquid containing ...
Ishikawa Prefecture is inviting visitors to view a studio where cultural assets are restored in a bid to draw public attention to the skill of art repair, the first such attempt by a local government in Japan. Ishikawa is known for traditional urushi lacquerware known ...
