IZUMISANO, Osaka -- Burgers combining expensive cuts of Kobe beef steak with the rice and nori seaweed of "onigiri" rice ...

Though both have illustrious Japanese pedigrees and beautiful marbling, a key price point separates Kobe beef from Wagyu.

Like in many other areas of Japan, the population is dwindling in Hyogo Prefecture and its capital, Kobe. City officials in May said Kobe’s population could fall below 1.5 million by the end of ...

KOBE — Tomiko Itooka, a 116-year-old Japanese woman recognised as the world's oldest person, has died of old age, an official of the western Japan city of Ashiya where she lived, said on Saturday.

It was the first time on record that four cities in the prefecture, including Kobe, along with Awajishima island, had observed a magnitude-7 quake. Three people remain unaccounted for and 43,792 ...

A Kobe municipal employee, born three weeks before the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake, was dispatched as a support worker for ...

The Emperor, in his New Year’s thoughts released through the Imperial Household Agency on Wednesday, expressed hope for world ...

We dined and drank sake with Ehime Prefecture government officials ... It had us parading in the Kobe Matsuri along with ...

Although volunteers often face criticism on social media, an expert in disaster management argues that volunteers are ...

From Kaçkar to Kansai, via rugged mountains, luxurious railways, cool cities and ancient footpaths, CNN Travel’s editors and ...

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