Etsuko Aoki began a small cooking class in Kanazawa in Ishikawa Prefecture in 1957 when she was 24. Knowing she had studied at a culinary school in Tokyo before getting married, her husband’s ...

The sun doesn't come out much during the winter in Fukui, Ishikawa and Toyama prefectures, the trio making up the Hokuriku region along the Sea of Japan. However, even by their standards, this ...

For example, there was a woman who had moved from Tokyo when her family was transferred to Kanazawa. She had grown depressed by the gray winter sky of the northern prefecture, so when she saw the ...