Aftershocks continued into the morning of Dec. 9 following a magnitude-7.5 earthquake that struck off Aomori Prefecture, injuring at least 30 people, triggering a tsunami and severing water supplies.

HIROSAKI, Aomori Prefecture—Sake connoisseurs wanting to try the top breweries in Aomori Prefecture and enjoy drinking with experts can sign up for new taxi tours supervised by a sake sommelier that ...

Record snowfall in January has severely damaged apple orchards in Aomori, northeast Japan, the country’s largest apple-producing region, with authorities fearing losses could exceed 10 billion yen ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jeanette Hurt covers the culture of spirits, wine and beer. A might be for apples, but it’s also for Aomori, home to Japan’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of Japan's few remaining 'original' castles, Hirosaki Castle will return to its original location in 2026 after having been ...

Established in 1871 (formerly part of Mutsu province) Capital: Aomori Population: 1,238,000 (as of Oct. 2020) Area: 9,646 km 2 Aomori’s largest city is the prefectural capital, also called Aomori, ...

A Japan Airlines plane returned to Aomori Airport Saturday after a system message signaled one of its engines had caught fire midair, the company said. Flight JL2154 bound for Osaka was carrying 47 ...

As habitats and weather patterns shift, people and wild animals are crossing paths more often.

Every year from August 2 to 7, millions of tourists—more than 2.6 million in recent years—flock to the city of Aomori in Aomori Prefecture at the northernmost tip of Japan’s Honshū island to see Japan ...

Twenty-one feet of snow – enough to bury a two-story house. And then some. That’s how much snow fell last year in Aomori City, in the northern Tohoku region of Japan. But it was just another winter in ...