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 ...

Night - Mostly cloudy. Winds W at 6 mph (9.7 kph). The overnight low will be 37 °F (2.8 °C). Cloudy with a high of 48 °F (8.9 °C). Winds variable at 2 to 11 mph (3.2 to 17.7 kph). Partly ...

(Mainichi/Kazuhiro Doi) KOBE -- Hyogo Prefecture's premium "Sanda beef" with Halal certification has been exported for the first time and will be served at the royal place and fancy restaurants in ...

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

The final reconstruction and redevelopment project in areas of Hyogo Prefecture, which was devastated by the 1995 Great ...

Kobe Club will serve Wagyu beef from owner Will Neal's ranch. Also, an Indian restaurant with some new-to-Springfield dishes ...

Among the key agreements, a friendship pact was established between Gujarat and Shizuoka Prefecture, and another agreement on ...

Read on for a quick guide to the prefecture’s top three hot spring destinations ... which provides fast transportation from Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe, Himeji and Tottori City. Legend claims that spending ...