The European flat oyster, introduced to Japan over 70 years ago, was thought to have vanished. However, it was recently ...

An international marine research team guided by Cornell expertise has successfully completed an ambitious drilling project to ...

Tohoku is rebuilding its tourist economy after the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami. Here’s all the info you need to plan ...

who headed efforts to rebuild areas devastated by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami. He said, “It was good that it happened over there, in the Tohoku region.” Kageboshi ...

Tohoku is Japan’s lesser-known wonderland of nature ... Tohoku is using tourism to aid its recovery from the 2011 earthquake. Tourism helps support local business regrowth.

Yet you don’t have to restrict yourself to Tokyo if you want to experience the festive side of Japan. You could combine a stay in the capital with a trip north to the Tohoku region, home to ...

The Tohoku Shinkansen’s Yamabiko 223 derailed ... was an aftershock of the hugely destructive Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011. The agency believes the latest quake occurred within ...