SHIMONOSEKI, Yamaguchi -- Tsunoshima Lighthouse in this southwestern Japan city is one of Japan's many lighthouses constructed in the early Meiji era (1868-1912) with involvement from British engineer ...

Have you ever heard of fugu, the notorious Japanese pufferfish? Containing a potent neurotoxin called tetrodotoxin in its organs, fugu is one of the world’s most dangerous delicacies. In Japan, only ...

SHIMONOSEKI, Yamaguchi -- Japan's oldest post office building still in service here is also available for various events such as concerts and weddings. The stately front entrance of the Shimonoseki ...

The fresh meat from fin whales was sold at a fish market in Shimonoseki (Shimonoseki City, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Maintenance Division via AP) Meat from fin whales caught for the first ...

I was asked that over and over when I told friends I was visiting the city. They are all Japanophiles who visit different parts of the country several times a year, but none of them had even heard of ...

On the 1st, at Akama Shrine in Shimonoseki, a port city in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan, Mr. Mizuno, the chief priest (宮司), ...

Perched on the edge of Honshu, Yamaguchi Prefecture's Shimonoseki possesses a wealth of history and culture entwined with the sea that laps at its shores. Busy with the hum of daily life, commuters ...

The combative tenor of the 54 th annual conference of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) was set the day before the opening gavel struck on Monday, May 20 in the whaling city of Shimonoseki, ...

SHIMONOSEKI, Yamaguchi Prefecture--Raw whale meat fetched 500,000 yen ($3,560) per kilogram at an auction here on Nov. 14, double the previous record of 250,000 yen set in Osaka in October. “We are ...