Japan has 47 prefectures, administrative divisions ranking immediately below the national government. They were created following the Meiji restoration of 1868, often with borders matching the ...

A tsunami advisory was issued for part of southwest Japan after a magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck Monday, but the warnings to ...

Southern Japan was hit by a strong earthquake on Monday that authorities said did not warrant the kind of megaquake warning that was triggered for the first time last year.

At around 7:57 p.m., an earthquake hit Kanagawa Prefecture with a seismic intensity of lower 5 on the Japanese scale from 0 to 7. The epicenter was in the western part of Kanagawa Prefecture ...

There are currently no direct flights from Kuala Lumpur International Airport to Kōchi Prefecture, but we've found some other routes to Japan – check them out now. What is the average price of a ...

Japan’s consumption of alcoholic ... Aomori at 94.1 liters, Kōchi at 91.9 liters, and Akita at 91.1 liters. Meanwhile, the prefecture with the lowest average consumption was Shiga, at 55.4 ...