MITO, Japan -- On a winter afternoon at JR Hitachi-Daigo Station located just north of Tokyo in Ibaraki prefecture, a bus ...

People bathe in cold water at Kashima Jingu shrine in Kashima, Ibaraki Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Jan. 20, 2025, during ...

This year, though, for the first time the prefecture’s researchers also sifted through statistical data to determine the happiness specifically of foreign residents of Ibaraki, and compared the ...

Ibaraki prefectural police hold this kind ... She will turn 11, about 50 years old in human terms, this winter. It is rare in Japan for a toy poodle to make the grade as a canine investigator ...

Tsukuba Marathon and Mitokomon Manyu Marathon--all take place in Ibaraki Prefecture. Similar competitions are held throughout Japan during autumn, winter and early spring, too. But that has not di ...