Ten years after the Hokuriku Shinkansen Line opened its Nagano-Kanazawa extension, sightseeing spots along the line are ...

which opened on March 16 last year between Tsuruga and Kanazawa stations in the Hokuriku region. "The number of visitors from the Kanto and Shinetsu regions, viewed as a key task amid the weak yen ...

Situated in central Honshu not far from the Sea of Japan, Kanazawa University is a research powerhouse with big new ideas in fields as diverse as evolutionary medicine, tourism and nanoscience.