Around 330,000 told to evacuate as rain batters Sea of Japan coast
The Meteorological Agency warned of heavy rain and the risk of flooding and landslides across parts of Shimane and Tottori prefectures through Wednesday and Thursday.
Shimane nuclear reactor clears regulatory screenings for restart
The Shimane No. 2 unit is the fifth boiling water reactor in the country to clear regulatory screenings for restarting idled plants.
91 test positive for coronavirus in Shimane high school cluster
Among those found to have contracted the virus were 88 members of the soccer team at the school in Matsue, with 82 living in the same dorm.
Matsue mayor to visit sister city in South Korea for first time in 10 years
The mayor of Matsue will visit the city's sister city in South Korea for the first time in nearly a decade to resume exchanges that were interrupted due to a territorial dispute over a pair of islets, the Japanese city said Tuesday. Matsue Mayor Masataka ...
Two more bodies found inside sunken fishing boat off Shimane Prefecture
The Japan Coast Guard on Thursday found two bodies inside a sunken fishing boat that capsized the previous day off Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, in the Sea of Japan. One of the bodies was identified as Yasushi Yoshida, 59, the chief engineer of the vessel Daifuku ...
One killed, nine missing as fishing boat capsizes off Matsue
A vessel being towed by another fishing boat capsizes off Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, triggering a search for its crew.
Shimane park's penguins suit up for Olympic cheerleading duties
As the Rio de Janeiro Olympics approach, a theme park focusing on birds and flowers in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, is letting penguins strut their stuff in special outfits to cheer on Japanese athletes at the Rio Games. Five penguins at Matsue Vogel Park wear white ...
A museum in Shimane Prefecture reopened on Saturday with more exhibition space for the personal effects and books of naturalized Japanese writer Lafcadio Hearn, also known as Yakumo Koizumi. The Lafcadio Hearn Memorial Museum in Matsue had been closed since January for a renewal that ...
Glimpses of Lafcadio Hearn's Matsue
The Matsue-bound train I boarded at Okayama Station was pointedly named Yakumo, a reference to its destination's best-known former resident: Greek-Irish writer Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904), whose adopted Japanese name was Yakumo Koizumi. Although Hearn stayed in Matsue for only a year, he developed a great ...
The Matsue education board decided Monday to retract its request to limit student access to the comic book "Hadashi no Gen" ("Barefoot Gen") amid reports that sales of manga are soaring. The board in the capital of Shimane Prefecture, had urged municipal elementary and junior ...
The Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, board of education is bent on covering up negative aspects of Japan's wartime history, as evidenced by its decision to have local elementary and junior high schools curb student access to the longtime iconic anti-war manga "Hadashi no Gen" ("Barefoot ...
After the Matsue board of education caused a stir last week by restricting student access to an iconic manga about the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and other wartime cruelties, it said Thursday that 44 of 49 school principals polled in the city ...
