Tired of fighting the crowds during the peak cherry blossom season? Take a step off the beaten path and head up to the Tohoku Region, where the natural wonders and cherry blossoms of Yamagata ...

MITO (Jiji Press) — An outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza has been confirmed at a poultry farm in the town of Yachiyo, Ibaraki Prefecture, eastern Japan, the prefectural government said ...