Municipal governments in Shimane and Hiroshima prefectures are teaming up to ask the national government for solutions after ...

SHIMANE (TR) – Shimane Prefectural Police have arrested a 57-year-old suspect for allegedly leaving the body of his ...

The skies over Shimane are always dramatic, almost supernaturally so. It’s befitting an area that’s known as “Land of the Gods,” the setting of many Shinto myths and home to the Izumo ...

Journey through the tranquil rustic landscape of Shimane Pref. Traditional fishermen catch clams. One temple offers blessing for eye ailments. And, residents make unusual sculptures for the deities.

Seoul strongly protested Japan's renewed territorial claim over Dokdo, Saturday, following an event held in Shimane ...

Did you know that the world's first canned coffee is said to have been created in the city of Hamada in western Japan's Shimane Prefecture? The canned coffee was developed by Yoshitake Miura (1899 ...

Shimane Governor Tatsuya Maruyama has agreed to a restart of the No. 2 reactor at Chugoku Electric Power Co.’s Shimane nuclear power plant after more than a decade. With the governor’s consent ...

YASUGI, Shimane Prefecture—Toshitaka Fujihara, manager of a Liberal Democratic Party branch, experienced the height of glory of Shimane Prefecture as an impregnable party stronghold. But at a ...

We start at Hiroshima, the largest city in the Chugoku region, and journey pastoral landscapes through the Chugoku Mountains to Izumo, Shimane Prefecture. The towns along the way are alive with ...