Visitors launched sky lanterns one after another into the starry sky of Hanamaki, Iwate Prefecture, emitting soft orange ...

1896, and 1933. When the earthquake struck, it generated a devastating tsunami. The largest waves reached a staggering height of nearly 40 meters (130 feet) in the Iwate Prefecture. The tsunami ...

New York, Jan. 27 (Jiji Press)--Iwate Prefecture held an event to promote its foodstuffs in New York on Monday, serving specialties from the northeastern Japan prefecture to people in the food and ...

Japanese authorities began culling some 50,000 chickens Sunday after a bird flu outbreak at a farm in the northern Iwate Prefecture region. It is the 19th bird flu outbreak of the season in Japan ...

RIKUZENTAKATA, Iwate Prefecture—A museum destroyed in the 2011 tsunami disaster is finally back in business after exhibits inundated with seawater and mud were restored with help from experts in ...

YAMADA, Iwate Prefecture--Emergency stairways in this coastal town are now coated in a special luminous paint to help guide residents to safety even after dark if disaster strikes. The luminous ...

Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan, and other financial titans spooked by Populist lawmaker William Jennings Bryan’s capture of the Democratic nomination in 1896. “There are two things that are ...

India has lodged a “solemn protest” with China over the formation of two counties in the Hotan Prefecture that incorporates territory of India’s Ladakh. Speaking to reporters during the ...

While Swami Sivananda immersed himself in yoga and meditation in his chamber in the morning, his disciples waited outside for his darshan amid ongoing Maha Kumbh.

The banner outside Baba's camp on Sector 16's Sangam Lower Road displays his Aadhaar card, which lists his birth date as August 8, 1896. While Swami Sivananda immersed himself in yoga and ...

The banner outside Baba’s camp on Sector 16’s Sangam Lower Road displays his Aadhaar card, which lists his birth date as August 8, 1896. While Swami Sivananda immersed himself in yoga and meditation ...