MITO--Ibaraki Governor Kazuhiko Oigawa is shrugging off a recent survey that ranked his prefecture as the least attractive in all of Japan. “There are various ways to see attractiveness and each ...

MITO, Ibaraki Prefecture--Prosecutors demanded the death penalty on June 17 for a man suspected of brutally killing his wife and five children. Hirobumi Komatsu, 36, “took away lives in an ...

Located in the town of Mito in Ibaraki Prefecture, Kairakuen is considered to be one of Japan’s three most beautiful gardens, due in no small part to the roughly 3,000 ume trees that grow within the ...

MITO, Japan -- Japan's Ibaraki Airport is trying to cement its status as a third hub in the Kanto region centering on Tokyo, along with Narita and Haneda airports. Deliberations are underway to ...