ODATE, Akita -- On May 18, two Akita dogs became special directors at Odate-Noshiro Airport in Akita Prefecture. The dogs wore bandanas around their n･･･ ...

The wakame seaweed harvest has started in the sea near Akita Prefecture and other areas. On February 23, a harvesting event was held in the city of Oga. About 40 people, including elementary ...

Regarding Akita Kimi's Dec. 27 letter, 'Another way of writing names': In response to Mikami Takashi's Dec. 20 reasoned plea for limiting Japanese names to surname-first usage in English, Akita's ...

An apparent bear attack has left a 73-year-old woman injured in the head and face in Akita Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

A couple's Japanese Akita attacked a child and left them with a large wound to the face, a court has heard. Kayleigh Godbert, 39, and Thomas Moir, 38, admitted being in charge of a dangerously out ...

AKITA -- An English-language picture book about the life of Hachi, a dog who would famously meet his owner at Tokyo's Shibuya Station after work in the 1920s and went on waiting for his owner at ...

The remote Akita Prefecture, in the northern Tōhoku region of the main island of Honshū, is known for its cold, snowy winters and as the birthplace of beautiful women.

AKITA--A single-department college nestled in a fairly remote forest in this northern prefecture has become a leading hunting ground for top talent in Japan.

When Sister Agnes Sasagawa, the visionary of Akita, Japan, died at age 93 on Aug. 15, on the Solemnity of the Assumption, the messages she was purportedly given and their connection to those of ...

Akita dogs Rensui, right, and Ruka, who were appointed as heads of Odate-Noshiro Airport, are seen in Kitaakita, Akita Prefecture, May 18, 2025. (Hikoshi Tamura) ODATE, Akita -- On May 18, two ...