Another line that connects the inland and coastal areas of Iwate Prefecture is the JR Kamaishi Line. 04:23 This 90-kilometer-long rural line runs from Hanamaki Station, near Iwate Hanamaki Airport ...

Iwate Prefecture is the second-largest prefecture ... That’s right, Kenji Miyazawa (1896-1933) who was born in the present-day Hanamaki city. OK, so you didn’t need the hint.

You will need insurance to rent a car in Iwate Prefecture, but you wont necessarily need ‘extra’ insurance. Different car hire companies offer different insurance policies, so make sure you look at ...

HANAMAKI, Iwate Prefecture--Like his idol Shohei Ohtani, Rintaro Sasaki aims to be a two-way great. He wants to excel both on the field and in the classroom at Stanford University in the United ...

How much is the cheapest flight ticket to Iwate Prefecture? We looked at upcoming return flights to Iwate Prefecture departing over the next 12 months and found that London Heathrow Airport to ...

Ohtani was already a Japanese icon before his six seasons with the Los Angeles Angels, but his fame and celebrity have even ...

Some municipalities are using AI technology to deal with the problem. Iwate Prefecture's Hanamaki City has installed AI-linked cameras at 23 locations to detect bears approaching the city center.

MORIOKA, (Japan): Bears become more active in autumn before they hibernate. In Iwate Prefecture, more than 40% of incidents with humans during the last fiscal year occurred between September and ...

Ohtani rushed onto the field after the final out to celebrate with his teammates and slipped into a gray championship T-shirt ...

Masakazu Saito shares his thoughts on nuclear abolition in Hanamaki, Iwate Prefecture, on March 18, 2015. (Mainichi/Shota Harumashi) TOKYO -- "I had been waiting, and waiting, and waiting for this ...

OSHU CITY, Japan (AP) — Hundreds of fans filed into a public viewing center in Shohei Ohtani's hometown in northern Japan on ...

The chipmaker, which was hammered by a downturn in the market for memory chips, is readying a major capacity expansion at its new fab at Kitakami in Iwate prefecture, north of Tokyo. Kioxia ...