The government agreed Friday to enhance the evacuation system for a possible disaster at Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings’ Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power station in Niigata Prefecture. The move is aimed …
New Delhi – The UNESCO World Heritage Committee unanimously decided Saturday to register the Sado Island Gold Mines in Niigata Prefecture as a World Cultural Heritage site. The site, which …
Seoul – South Korea is now going to accept designation of forced labor-linked gold mines on Japan’s Sado Island as a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site, a senior official of …
Niigata – Environment Minister Shintaro Ito met with Niigata Minamata disease sufferers on Wednesday, apologizing over a recent incident in which citizens’ remarks were cut short during an earlier meeting …
As Japan’s rice farmers prepare for a new planting season, many will be hoping that this summer brings a reprieve from 2023’s brutal weather conditions. Niigata Prefecture, for example, typically …
In March last year, Maria Fernanda Cardoso flew from Sydney to Tokyo with her husband. They took a 10-hour flight, then a second hour-long flight, and then were driven to …
Niigata – A government energy affairs official sought understanding Thursday from Niigata Gov. Hideyo Hanazumi about restarting Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings’ Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant in central Japan. Yoshifumi Murase, …
Arai, Niigata Pref. – Tomohiro Tanaka was barely out of elementary school when people started calling him “Mr. Brewery,” a reference to the century-old sake business he was destined to …