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News, Kyodo News, Published on 11/08/2016
» Morioka, the capital city of Iwate prefecture in northeastern Japan, is striving to preserve and revitalise the time-honoured tradition of geisha female entertainers for which the town was once famous.
News, Kyodo News, Published on 05/08/2016
» While Barack Obama's historic visit to Hiroshima as the first sitting US president in May highlighted again the need to eliminate nuclear weapons, Japan's major anti-nuclear group, which has led the movement for 60 years at home and abroad, sees a rocky road ahead as its membership declines with the passing of atomic bomb survivors.