A festival to savor blowfish has attracted visitors to Shimonoseki City in the western Japanese prefecture of Yamaguchi.

The Shimonoseki City Aquarium in Japan's Yamaguchi Prefecture needed to undergo renovations, and temporarily closed to the public in December, 2024. Staff said the aquarium's sunfish lost his ...

A 21-year-old U.S. military serviceman was arrested Feb. 11 for allegedly trespassing into an apartment in the western Japan ...

SHIMONOSEKI, Yamaguchi -- The mayor of this west Japan city apologized to atomic bomb survivors on Sept. 25 for remarks about ...

Locals are trying to make Shimonoseki recognized as Japan’s No. 1 city for whale meat. A total of 1.4 tons of whale meat was sold at the auction. A long line of shoppers formed when an outlet of ...

decided to cancel after consulting with the Shimonoseki city government and other stakeholders. “We apologize to all the fans who were looking forward to it,” said a representative from the ...

Kaikyokan Aquarium in Shimonoseki, southern Japan, has been closed to the public for renovations since December 2024. Its sunfish fell ill soon after and staffers struggled to understand why the ...

The next morning, the sunfish ate for the first time in about a week and has been steadily recovering, said Moe Miyazawa, an aquarist at the Kaikyokan aquarium in Shimonoseki. When the sunfish ...

Animal caretakers at the Kaikyokan in the southern city of Shimonoseki were concerned when Mambo the sunfish appeared to fall ill, shortly after the facility closed for renovations in early December.