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).

A highest-level warning for a Nankai Trough megaquake would prompt a government evacuation advisory for 670,000 people, but ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...