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  Yuming and Ayaka Hirahara Perform at Save the Snow Concert in Iwate Prefecture

  HACHIMANTAI, Iwate — Save the Snow Concert, a two-day event to raise awareness about global warming ...

  February 12, 2023

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  Cold Air Creates Mirage off Iwate Pref.

  An optical illusion whereby a ship and an island look as though they are floating above the sea’s su...

  January 30, 2023

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  NY Times Nod Puts Morioka on The Map

  Visitors from Japan and overseas have been flocking to a city in the Tohoku region since its inclusi...

  January 29, 2023

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  Japan In Focus

  Iwate: Time capsule unsealed 30 yrs after tunnel opening

  OFUNATO, Iwate — A time capsule has been opened some 30 years after it was buried to mark the openin...

  December 11, 2022

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  Iwate: Event showcasing Sanriku’s traditional folk performance art held in Iwate

  OFUNATO, Iwate — Aiming to pass down and promote traditional folk performance art from the Sanriku c...

  November 13, 2022

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  Museum destroyed by 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake to reopen nearly 12 years later

  RIKUZENTAKATA, Iwate — The municipal museum in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, is set to reopen to ...

  November 4, 2022

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  Iwate : Gathering of 20-year-olds held

  SUMITA, Iwate — The town of Sumita in Iwate Prefecture has renamed its annual coming-of-age ceremony...

  September 11, 2022

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  Tribunal on fire

  A dragon-like boat is set on fire and released on the Kitakami River during the Funekko-nagashi fest...

  August 21, 2022

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  Japan In Focus

  Iwate: Art students colorfully depict major Tohoku festivals on beer can labels

  MORIOKA — The Tohoku branch of Suntory Liquors Ltd. in Sendai has begun selling limited-edition cans...

  July 24, 2022

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  Japan In Focus

  Iwate: Snowboarders disturb ‘Dragon Eye’

  HACHIMANTAI, Iwate — Snowboarders have reportedly disrupted a natural phenomenon at Kagaminuma pond ...

  July 6, 2022

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  Trio of monuments record horror wreaked by tsunami on Iwate Pref. coast

  KAMAISHI, Iwate — Eleven years have passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011, ...

  May 10, 2022

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  Japan In Focus

  Iwate: ‘Miraculous lone pine’ stump and root network to go on tour

  RIKUZEN-TAKATA, Iwate — The stump and root network of the “miraculous lone pine,” a tree that surviv...

  March 1, 2022

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  Japan In Focus

  Iwate: Students use evidence to amend high school rules

  OTSUCHI, Iwate — Students at an Iwate Prefecture high school long known for its strict code of condu...

  February 22, 2022

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  Iwate: Tiger dance festival to celebrate Year of Tiger Share

  KAMAISHI, Iwate — When the SL Ginga train arrived from Hanamaki at a platform at JR Kamaishi Station...

  January 18, 2022

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  Iwate: Junior high school students conduct marine survey with researchers

  MORIOKA — The Iwate prefectural government’s coastal zone promotion bureau launched a program called...

  September 21, 2021

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