Food & Drink | KANPAI CULTURE Jun 12, 2021
The secret to this sake’s flavor? Aging it underwater
by Melinda Joe
What started as an experiment has turned into a way for Otokoyama Honten brewery to recover from the 2011 Tohoku triple disaster.
Style & Design May 23, 2021
Nozomi Project gives new life to broken pottery — and the prospects of its artisans
by Lily Crossley-Baxter
With a motto of “finding beauty in brokenness,” the women-led company balances remembrance of the 2011 disaster with hope and progress.
National / Science & Health Dec 3, 2020
'The diversity of nature': Rare 9-tentacled octopus found in northeastern Japan
The unusual creature has been put on display at the local nature center in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture.
Olympics Oct 25, 2019
Olympic icons Tadahiro Nomura, Saori Yoshida to unveil Tokyo 2020 flame in March
Three-time Olympic gold medalists Tadahiro Nomura and Saori Yoshida will deliver the 2020 Olympic flame from Greece and unveil it in Japan at a ceremony in March, the organizing committee of the Tokyo Games said Friday. Nomura, a former judoka who captured his first of ...
National Aug 2, 2018
Japanese government aims to have all evacuees in Miyagi and Iwate secure new homes by 2021
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Thursday that by March 2021 the government will aim to complete the building and securing of houses for those forced to evacuate due to the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in two of the three hardest-hit prefectures in Tohoku. The government ...
Food & Drink Apr 13, 2018
In Tohoku, samurai cuisine is racking up Michelin stars
by Ross Kenneth Urken
In the town of Shiogama in Miyagi Prefecture, there's a residential neighborhood overlooking Matsushima Bay, the epicenter of Japan's catastrophic March 2011 earthquake and subsequent tsunami. On a quiet street there, chef Hideyuki Irakawa and his wife, Michiko, have been serving samurai food from ...
Business Apr 5, 2018
Snow-shy Miyazaki ski resort staves off closure for another year
Japan's southernmost ski resort plans to operate for another winter despite the continuing downtrend in guests. Gokase Highland Ski & Snowboard in Miyazaki Prefecture managed to improve business performance by cutting costs last season, which ended March 5, but customers fell to an all-time low ...
National Aug 11, 2017
Japan's young farmers pin hopes on technology to revitalize agricultural industry
by Kaori Kaneko
A new breed of younger, business- and tech-savvy farmers is transforming Japan's shrinking agriculture sector with cutting-edge techniques and marketing strategies, giving new hope to an industry in slow decline. Hiroki Iwasa, a 40-year-old IT entrepreneur with an MBA, grows strawberries in seven high-tech greenhouses ...
National Jun 12, 2017
The body of a Sendai high school student who vanished during a failed dinghy outing off Miyagi Prefecture has been found, the Japan Coast Guard said Monday. The body of Rui Sakai, 16, was found 620 meters off Kitakama Beach in Natori, the Coast Guard's ...
National May 9, 2017
Bonfire may be cause of Miyagi fire that forced 400 people to flee homes, investigators say
Police said Tuesday that a bonfire may be the source of a forest fire that broke out Monday in Kurihara, Miyagi Prefecture, which temporarily forced nearly 400 residents from 117 households to evacuate. According to police officials, a resident alerted firefighters around noon Monday to ...
National / Crime & Legal Oct 28, 2016
Ishinomaki to appeal ruling over tsunami deaths of school students
The city’s mayor says it will appeal a court ruling ordering it to pay, together with Miyagi Prefecture, ¥1.4 billion in damages.
National / Crime & Legal May 25, 2016
Settlement reached over student deaths at tsunami-hit driving school
The families of 25 teens killed in the 2011 tsunami while they were at a driving school in Miyagi Prefecture reached a financial settlement with the school on Wednesday in a deal that also includes an apology from the latter over the deaths. In the ...