FUKUI--Takato Ishida became the youngest governor in Japan following an election that was made necessary by the resignation ...

A few years ago, when a U.S. presidential candidate sharing the same name as this little-known port city in Fukui Prefecture was approaching the last leg of his campaign, the city of Obama was seized ...

A canned mackerel product developed by high schoolers in Fukui Prefecture for consumption in outer space has returned to the ...

Japan is launching a new high-speed bullet train, or shinkansen, extension on Saturday that will make an under-the-radar prefecture far more accessible to travelers. The coastal Fukui Prefecture is ...

The city of Sabae in Fukui Prefecture has been the site of eyeglass frame production for more than a century, and is the only major production site in Japan to have survived to the present day. In the ...

Coast guard officials in Fukui Prefecture are calling for increased vigilance over wild dolphins in the waters off the prefecture, as more cases of human injury have been reported this summer. On ...

Fukui Prefecture has just released a new multilingual leaflet available in English, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese, making it easier than ever for people living in Japan and tourists to ...

Fukui Prefecture on the Japan Sea coast is dinosaur central. Most of the dinosaur fossils discovered in Japan—some 80%—come from the prefecture, which is home to the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum, ...

A Japanese court decided Friday to allow five aging nuclear reactors to continue operations at plants in central Japan run by Kansai Electric Power Co, rejecting local residents' safety concerns that ...

The English webpage revealed that the company appointed Dragonite as the ambassador of Fukui due to the prefecture’s ties with dinosaurs and dragons. The Fukui Prefecture hosts a large dinosaur museum ...