Pianos from the time of Beethoven and Mozart form part of a collection here that was lovingly put together by a piano tuner ...

TSU--Following a major COVID-19 outbreak, Mie University officials are meeting with pushback after asking students living in areas under the current state of emergency to pledge not to engage in ...

SHIMA, Mie Prefecture--Construction of what is touted as equal in size to the world’s largest wave pool is due for completion here by summer 2026 at a cost of 4 billion yen ($26.3 million).

KUWANA, Mie Prefecture—The Mie prefectural government will issue improvement instructions to organizers of the “Ageuma Shinji” (Horse jumping festival) after the event came under intense ...

TOBA, Mie Prefecture--Although it doesn't sound like anything out of the ordinary, a traditional ryokan inn complete with an onsen facility that opened in the Kuzakicho district here is much more ...

The quake hit at 5:09 p.m. on Nov. 14 some 350 kilometers deep off the southeast coast of Mie Prefecture. But no seismic intensity was recorded in nearby areas, including Mie Prefecture ...

TSU--Dolphins yawn, even in the wild seas, a study showed. A group of researchers with Mie University here analyzed 1,816 hours of video recordings and spotted free-ranging Indo-Pacific bottlenose ...

TSU--Mie prefectural assembly members will be prohibited from clicking "likes" to social media posts that encourage human rights violations in response to questionable online behavior by an ...

TSU--The decision not to place a 4-year-old girl in temporary custody in 2022 who later died in her mother's care was partly influenced by an artificial intelligence evaluation, according to Mie ...

TOBA, Mie Prefecture--Images of a Baikal seal cub with a “human-like” face went viral after the Toba Aquarium in Mie Prefecture showed off its cute and friendly resident named Niko ...

TSU--“Mitake no Sakura” (Mitake’s sakura) is a famous cherry blossom viewing spot in the mountains about a one-hour drive from Tsu Station in Mie Prefecture. There, around 500 mountain ...

TSU, Mie Prefecture--A fossil discovery by Yoshihiko Saka when he was a schoolboy 33 years ago was likened to “winning the jackpot” after museum officials here belatedly realized it ...