On the north coast of Honshu Island, scenically hugging the coastline of the Sea of Japan and just a bullet train ride from Tokyo, Ishikawa Prefecture is a hidden gem amongst the better-known of Japan ...
AM.An emergency alert sound never heard before rang out on smartphones all across Japan.Notice Regarding Changes to the Tokyo ...
Disaster Victim RegistryIn July 2018, I spoke at the Graduate School of Disaster Resilience and Regenerative Medicine at the ...
This year marks the hundredth anniversary of the first census conducted in Japan, and here we look at how prefecture populations have changed since 1920. Japan’s national census takes place every five ...
Akita Prefecture sets along the Sea of Japan in the Tōhoku region in northern Honshū. It is Japan’s sixth largest prefecture by size. Largely mountainous, its main ranges are the north-to-south ...