Every Japanese prefecture has its trademark noodle dish.

In addition to public PAC-3 exercises, some Japanese prefectures have also conducted missile attack evacuation drills in recent weeks.

There's little to see and little to do -in terms of Japanese prefectures, you can't get much smaller.

Kanagawa is a Japanese prefecture.

China has banned imports of dairy, vegetable and seafood products from at least five Japanese prefectures since the 2011 disaster.

I'm on a tiny island called Taketomi in the archipelago Japanese prefecture of Okinawa and here, tree climbing geriatrics are par for the course.

The new institution, formed after a lengthy battle between the antitrust watchdog and financial regulators, has a roughly 70% share in the southern Japanese prefecture.