FUKUI, Japan – A farmer in snowy Fukui City ships tropical bananas year-round. Naoki Ejima, 63, was a pharmacist at a drugstore in the city but quit before reaching his retirement age to grow bananas.

FUKUI--Suspicions have emerged that a rogue dolphin may be responsible for a spate of attacks off Fukui Prefecture over the past three years that left at least 53 people with wounds and sometimes ...

After an initial struggle with a pests, the farmer now expects an annual harvest of 20,000 bananas. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

KATSUYAMA, Fukui Prefecture--The Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum here will reopen July 14 following a major refurbishment that will have dino fans gaping in amazement. For starters, the revamped ...

The English webpage revealed that the company appointed Dragonite as the ambassador of Fukui due to the prefecture’s ties with dinosaurs and dragons. The Fukui Prefecture hosts a large dinosaur museum ...

Fukui Prefecture enjoyed a 20% increase in visitors over the 11 months since an extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line opened in the region. Still, how to increase the number of tourists who stay ...

Japan is launching a new high-speed bullet train, or shinkansen, extension on Saturday that will make an under-the-radar prefecture far more accessible to travelers. The coastal Fukui Prefecture is ...

A few years ago, when a U.S. presidential candidate sharing the same name as this little-known port city in Fukui Prefecture was approaching the last leg of his campaign, the city of Obama was seized ...

FUKUI: A farmer in snowy Fukui City in Japan ships tropical bananas year-round. Naoki Ejima, 63, was a pharmacist at a ...