Sampling Japan’s beef is a priority among many international visitors, with words like Wagyu, Kobe, yakiniku and Matsusaka racing through their minds as they step off the plane. A word that’s usually ...

Nearly two years after Japan’s last nuclear power plant was shut down for safety checks, Kyushu Electric Power Co. has started up the 890-MW Sendai-1. The event marks a significant milestone for the ...

Two of Japan’s reactors—Units 1 and 2 of the Kyushu Electric Power Company’s Sendai nuclear power plant—have just restarted, and Unit 1 should begin generating electricity on August 14. Like all other ...

Once a year Sendai bursts into a riot of color as the city streets are decorated with sweeping streamers mounted on tall bamboo poles. Look closely for glimpses of the seven traditional ornaments ...

The Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami not only sped the population decline in many municipalities in the northwestern prefectures of Miyagi and Iwate, it sparked population growth in Sendai, a ...

The famed daimyō Date Masamune (1567–1636) grew up during a tumultuous time of constant warfare in which prominent warlords battled for supremacy. Born in Yonezawa Castle, stronghold of the Date clan ...

Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority has approved the operation of units 1 and 2 at Kyushu Electric Power Company's Sendai nuclear power plant beyond 40 years. Under incoming legislation, the units ...

SENDAI—Suspended by ropes, repair workers rappel down and across the shiny white face of a 100-meter-tall standing Buddhist statue here. The specialized high-altitude conservators do not use ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi got a joyous welcome with "Modi san" greetings from a large number of Japanese people who gathered to see him upon his arrival in Sendai city on the second and concluding ...

TOKYO — Japan restarted a nuclear reactor Tuesday for the first time since new rules were introduced in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima meltdown. The reactor at the Sendai Nuclear Power Plant was one ...