Four municipal assembly members in Hiroshima Prefecture on March 9 submitted letters of resignation after learning that they would be indicted on bribery charges in a vote-buying scandal.
While investigators were closing in on many members of Hiroshima Prefecture’s political community in 2020 for allegedly ...
A hall linked to Buddhist saint Kukai (774-835) on Miyajima island in the city of Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, burned ...
Visitors to an exhibition in Hiroshima Prefecture are admiring satsuki azaleas displayed as bonsai, Japan's time-honored art ...
The destruction of Reikado Hall on Miyajima island has reignited concerns over protecting Japan’s centuries-old wooden heritage sites from recurring fire risks and natural disasters.
The area around the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima's Naka Ward is bustling with foreign tourists on Oct. 23, 2025. (Mainichi/Kenjiro Sato) HIROSHIMA -- A total of 64.74 million tourists including 4.22 ...
A fire broke out at Daishō-in Temple on Miyajima Island, Hiroshima Prefecture on May 20.Flames engulfed the building as ...
The devastating blaze gutted part of Daishoin Temple on Miyajima Island in the city of Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, on Wednesday.
HIROSHIMA – Mika Yokota, a former deputy governor of Hiroshima Prefecture, has become the first female governor of the prefecture after winning a gubernatorial election on Sunday. Yokota, 54, ran in ...
Another local official in Japan voiced his firm opposition on Tuesday to any attempt of reviewing Japan's long-standing Three Non-Nuclear Principles, after Nagasaki Prefecture Governor Kengo Oishi and ...