Twenty-one employees of the Itoku Tsuchizaki Minato Store in central Akita, near Akita Port, were preparing to open for the day at 6:30 a.m. on Nov. 30 when an emergency call was made to police ...

Akita Offshore Wind Corp. operates the wind farm that went into commercial service off Noshiro Port in this northeastern city on Dec. 22. The company’s second facility went online off Akita Port ...