Ibaraki Prefecture’s success from promoting its beauty and charms was short-lived. The prefecture returned to its familiar bottom-basement ranking in a survey this year of “attractive ...

In the latest survey, 5.0 percent of respondents said Ibaraki Prefecture is “very attractive,” up from the 2.3 percent last year, according to Brand Research Institute.

Last month, metal listeners finally got their first taste of Ibaraki, the new black metal project by Trivium‘s Matt Heafy and Emperor‘s Ihsahn, via their first single “Akumu” from their upcoming album ...