Last year, over 19,000 people diagnosed or showing signs of dementia in Japan went missing. The figure is a record.

The Arakawa Line operates in the northeastern ... Sakura means "cherry blossoms," a flower loved by the Japanese. Blending into the landscape, the line runs through the daily lives of locals.

Saitama prefectural police know of at least five cases of cat parts being found near the Arakawa river in this city north of Tokyo. Teachers are instructing students to go straight home and in ...

If the Arakawa river in eastern Tokyo tops its banks in a flood, no less than 11 major lines of East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) would wind up under water in a disaster, according to an estimate ...