Tucked away in Japan’s countryside, millions of abandoned homes – known as akiya – sit empty, waiting for a second life. With property prices often shockingly low, these forgotten houses ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- As the city mourns the sudden loss of Louisville basketball great Junior Bridgeman, tributes are pouring in from all corners of the nation for a man who excelled on and ...

Kotaro Nagasaki, the Governor of Yamanashi Prefecture, is making significant strides to deepen and strengthen relations between Japan and India, with a particular focus on Green Hydrogen energy ...

Yamanashi Prefecture [Japan], March 10 (ANI): Kotaro Nagasaki, the Governor of Yamanashi Prefecture, is making significant strides to deepen and strengthen relations between Japan and India, with a ...

Yamanashi Prefecture [Japan], March 10 (ANI): Kotaro Nagasaki, the Governor of Yamanashi Prefecture, is making significant strides to deepen and strengthen relations between Japan and India, with ...

Around 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, a local train from Ohtsuki to Takao got stuck near Uenohara Station in Uenohara, Yamanashi Prefecture, leaving around 30 passengers stranded on board. The train returned ...

A fire that broke out on Feb 28 in Nagano prefecture has been put out, and the authorities on March 3 managed to gain control of another fire in Yamanashi prefecture that began on Feb 26.

Night - Cloudy with a 49% chance of precipitation. Winds variable. The overnight low will be 31 °F (-0.6 °C). Cloudy with a high of 46 °F (7.8 °C) and a 71% chance of precipitation. Winds ...

The previous record low for February was 4.4 millimeters in 1967. Two other fires were also burning Saturday, one in Yamanashi and another elsewhere in Iwate. Last year was Japan's hottest since ...

A wildfire broke out at Ozawa district in Otsuki city, Yamanashi, on February 26, burning 80 hectares of forest and destroying an empty house as of Friday. RESTRICTIONS AND USAGE TERMS ...

After all, it stood in a forest of shoulder-high weeds after being abandoned about seven years earlier — one of the millions of vacant houses known as akiya, Japanese for “empty house ...

Japanese character goods company Sanrio, famous for Hello Kitty, will open a new museum in Kai City in the central prefecture of Yamanashi. The company's founder, Tsuji Shintaro, was born in the ...