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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

KUWANA, Mie Prefecture--Horses scrambling up a steep slope emerged none the worse on May 4 after changes were made to a shrine festival in response to accusations of animal cruelty last year.

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).

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--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 ...

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--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 ...

In the study last autumn, The Asahi Shimbun sent questionnaires to about ... A child welfare center in Tsu, Mie Prefecture, said its staff were expected to respond in Portuguese and Spanish ...