When Shoichi died in 2014, Kanako thought she had seen most of the best photos he had taken during his career as a newsman in Aomori. She even donated a few prints to a local museum. But in 2017 ...

Jeanette Hurt covers the culture of spirits, wine and beer. A might be for apples, but it’s also for Aomori, home to Japan’s finest cider production. In the middle of downtown Aomori ...

Apples are a specialty of Aomori Prefecture, and images of six varieties of the fruit are printed on the six sides of the Aomorik Cube version. The all-red puzzle is more difficult to solve than a ...

Record snowfall in January has severely damaged apple orchards in Aomori, northeast Japan, the country’s largest apple-producing region, with authorities fearing losses could exceed 10 billion ...