For a long time Megumi Sasaki felt that something did not quite fit. The feeling settled like a shawl around her shoulders — she tried to shake it off but couldn't. "It wasn't that I disliked Tokyo or college," says Sasaki, recalling her days as a ...
The annual dolphin hunt began in the whaling town of Taiji on Friday, but an approaching typhoon forced the controversial hunt to be called off on the first day without any animals caught. The traditional "drive-hunting" hunting method, in which fishermen herd dolphins and small ...
As the Diet prepares to debate the structure of integrated casino resorts this autumn, competition in Osaka and neighboring Wakayama to win the rights to host one of the first legal gambling complexes in the country is heating up. The most talked-about candidate for the ...
The Wakayama Prefectural Government will expand the area subject to its tsunami forecasts to cover the prefecture's entire coast in an effort to minimize damage from a major quake off central and western Japan. Starting in mid-September, the prefecture will provide its own tsunami forecasts, ...
The Wakayama Prefecture town of Taiji, known for its whale and dolphin hunts, said Wednesday it is establishing a sister-city relationship with a town in the Faroe Islands with similar traditional practices. Taiji and the Klaksvik in the Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic are ...
A Kuroshio limited express train led by a car with a panda face debuted Saturday in Osaka to lure tourists to Adventure World, the giant wildlife theme park in Wakayama Prefecture where the popular animals are on show. "I'm about to board the train and ...
In the Kansai region, known mostly for the cities of Kyoto, Osaka, Nara and Kobe, Wakayama Prefecture rarely tops the destination list of most tourists. It's little known overseas and it's name doesn't have the cachet that universally conjures up an iconic Japanese food like, ...
Heavy rain hit a wide area on the Pacific side of the Japanese archipelago Wednesday, disrupting traffic and prompting local authorities to issue evacuation advisories for over 360,000 people in central regions due to possible flooding. The body of a woman in her 60s was ...
The town of Taiji, known for its whale-hunting traditions, held an annual memorial service on Saturday for whales captured and killed. Some 100 people including fishermen gathered in front of a whale-shaped monument at a park in the town and offered incense in a gesture ...
An animal handler died Sunday after being hit by the trunk of an elephant at an amusement facility complex in Wakayama Prefecture, police said. Wichai Madee, from Thailand, and another handler were washing the animal in a cage at Adventure World in the resort town ...
A fire at an oil refinery that forced nearby residents to evacuate Sunday in Wakayama Prefecture subsided early Monday, allowing local authorities to lift an evacuation order for some 3,000 residents shortly after 4 a.m. According to local police and fire departments, no injuries have ...
Officials tell residents to evacuate after a fire begins to burn at a TonenGeneral Sekiyu K.K. refinery in the city of Arida.
