At Horyu Elementary and Junior High Schools in Suzu, which now shelter about 250 displaced residents, a moment of silence was observed at 4:10 p.m., the exact time the magnitude-7.6 temblor ...

There are around 48 Buddhist monuments in the Horyu-ji area, in Nara Prefecture. Several date from the late 7th or early 8th century, making them some of the oldest surviving wooden buildings in the ...

City officials must use running water to pinpoint the damaged sections. However, the Horyu water filtration plant, which supplies water to more than 10,000 people, or 90 percent of Suzu’s ...

A HuMA team recently visited a 92-year-old woman in Horyu Town, Suzu. She is almost entirely bedridden and is sheltering at home. Her daughter who lives with her said, "I worried my mother would ...

Roughly seventy per cent of the country is forested. Therefore, wood has been used in houses since ancient times. In fact, the world’s oldest surviving wooden structure is the Horyu-ji temple that was ...

Hôryû Nakamura (Syukichi)Ryôko Asagi (Noriko)Yumeka Sasaki (Mitsuko)Seiji Nakamitsu (Hajime)Sakura Mizuki (Chiriko)Haruki Jô (Doctor)Toshimasa Niiro (Haruki)Yoshinori Horimoto (Patient ...

Nara, Japan is a city like no other on the planet. Home to more than 1,000 sacred deer, the capital of the Nara Prefecture is ...

Tokyo used to be called Edo, but during the beginning of the Meiji Period in 1868, it became the country’s capital and was ...

Sakurano (Kimika)Kenji Ezure (Daisuke)Asami (Shigemi)Hôryû Nakamura (Takanashi)Ayana Chigawa (Kameda)Takao Itô Naoyuki Takayama Daisuke Gotô A girl named Kimika (Sakurano) wakes up chained up ...

There are around 48 Buddhist monuments in the Horyu-ji area, in Nara Prefecture. Several date from the late 7th or early 8th century, making them some of the oldest surviving wooden buildings in the ...