A 73-meter Kannon statue overlooks the hot-spring resort city of Kaga in Ishikawa Prefecture ... Now, the statue poses a safety problem. Japan's building code requires structures that are 60 ...

One of Japan’s largest warships – JS Kaga (DDH-184) – returned to its homeport of Kure on Sunday following a three-month deployment to the United States to conduct F-35B trials, this week.

So Ishikawa Prefecture authorities want to ... he was evacuated by a Self-Defense Forces helicopter and transported to a Japanese-style inn in Kaga City with about 80 other residents from the ...

According to the Japan Road Traffic Information Center, the Kurobe-Kaga and Kashiwazaki-Nishiyama ... Expressway was closed to all traffic. In Ishikawa Prefecture, roads have been cut off in ...