Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture, the Tōhoku region’s largest city, is perhaps best known among gourmets for beef tongue. It was in 1948 that chef Sano Keishirō developed a method for preparing tasty beef ...

Once a year Sendai bursts into a riot of color as the city streets are decorated with sweeping streamers mounted on tall bamboo poles. Look closely for glimpses of the seven traditional ornaments ...

Tasks that must be resolved for local residents change nearly 15 years after Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan was hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, Governor Yoshihiro Murai has said ...

The Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami not only sped the population decline in many municipalities in the northwestern prefectures of Miyagi and Iwate, it sparked population growth in Sendai, a ...

I am so proud to share that the bishop of the Diocese of Sendai in Japan is a Filipino! He is Bishop Edgar Gacutan, who hails from Cagayan. He is a Filipino missionary priest. He went to Japan way ...

Bunshokan was built in 1916 and was used as a government building until 1975. It now serves as a local history museum. Kuya Angelo, I’ll be in Yamagata in two weeks. Are you free to meet up?” read the ...

Miyagi's satellite shop in Ikebukuro promotes all the goodies the Tohoku prefecture is known for, and this time it's shining the spotlight on beef, beef and more beef from Sendai. There will be beef ...

In times of trouble music can soothe the soul. And if anyone's souls needed soothing, it would be the people of Sendai. The capital of Miyagi Prefecture is located 130 km east of the epicenter of the ...

SENDAI—Sendai locals Keisuke Saito and Junko Abe each found and consumed 100 different fish species in their quest to gain the highest-level certification for their “gem” collections. The Miyagi ...