HIROSAKI, Japan >> The Fujisaki schoolhouse of the Hirosaki Vocational High School, home to Japan’s only “Department of Apples,” is closing at the end of the school year. Before the curtain falls on ...

A flock of swans are visiting the "swan meeting plaza" near a river in the town of Fujisaki, Aomori Prefecture, to rest their wings. Every year, about 300 swans migrate to the area around November and ...

Police believe a girl in the second year of junior high school who committed suicide by jumping in front of a train in Fujisaki, Aomori Prefecture, may have been bullied at school. According to police ...