Metasequoia trees lining a 2.4-kilometer avenue in Makino Town in Shiga Prefecture’s Takashima City have been in full color since late November. The trees were planted in 1981 to protect the ...

The city hopes the scheduled recovery attempt will ... A search for the sunken ships has intermittently been ongoing since the 1980s near Takashima. The team confirmed the body of a sunken ship ...

Takashima broke the previous record for youngest mayor set in 1994, when Kotaro Shishida was elected at 27 to lead Musashimurayama in western Tokyo, according to the Japan Association of City Mayors.