The idea for the picnics out on the water has thrown a lifesaver to the Japan CitySUP Association ... to close from April into May. The Okawa river is typically busy with pleasure boats and ...

OSAKA--It's difficult to see the stars from the city, but the Okawa river was awash here with its own brilliant blue milky way on July 7 with help from 21st-century magic. Star festival ...

Okawa Elementary School in Miyagi Prefecture was swallowed by a tsunami after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake ... to a slightly higher spot beside a river, it was too late – a wall of ...