AKASHI, Hyogo Prefecture--Akashi city in January will become the first local government in Japan to introduce a partnership system that treats the children of same-sex couples as “family ...

AKASHI, Hyogo Prefecture--Embattled Akashi Mayor Fusaho Izumi announced on Oct. 12 that he will not seek re-election and retire from politics, the same day he was censured by the city assembly for ...

AKASHI, Hyogo -- The face of an adorable "sunset panda," consisting of the sun and two parabolic antennae, was seen in perfect form from an astronomical museum in this western Japan city on March ...