Japan has 47 prefectures, administrative divisions ranking immediately below the national government. They were created following the Meiji restoration of 1868, often with borders matching the ...

Local governments in two Japanese prefectures ordered the evacuation of nearly 2,800 people Monday where wildfires continue ...

Lower House seats will be reapportioned from population-losing prefectures to five mainly urban prefectures--Tokyo and its three neighboring prefectures, as well as Aichi in central Japan.

Fariqqin has been to the country more than 10 times now, and he still hasn't had enough. It's this insatiable awe and love for Japan that compelled this Singaporean to want to visit all 47 of its ...

NHK Science & Technology Research Laboratories (STRL) is developing a system that automatically composes computer graphics (CG) Japanese sign language (JSL) animations for weather information in ...