The young American writer and food stylist has two properties in Yamanaka, a little hot spring town in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. Kirshner always had been interested in Japanese culture.

KANAZAWA–Despite a devastating New Year's Day earthquake in the prefecture, foreign visitors to the famed Kenrokuen garden here have ... according to Ishikawa Prefecture. The surge was driven ...

Aftershocks continued to shake Ishikawa prefecture and nearby areas a day after a magnitude 7.6 temblor slammed the area. Damage was so great that it could not immediately be assessed. Japanese ...

Before noon on Sept. 21, an active autumn rain front caused linear rainbands to form over Ishikawa Prefecture, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. The amount of rain that fell on Wajima ...

A magnitude-7.6 earthquake struck Ishikawa Prefecture in central Japan on Monday. The country's meteorological agency has downgraded to advisories all tsunami warnings issued along the Sea of Japan.