Alaska

MINAMI-SANRIKU, Miyagi Prefecture--After her buoy survived a 5,000-kilometer journey across the Pacific, Sakiko Miura, 64, plans to keep it safely indoors when her restaurant...

WASHINGTON--U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced plans on March to bolster U.S. missile defenses in response to "irresponsible and reckless provocations" by North Korea,...

Dowa Holdings Co. said Feb. 4 that its subsidiary Dowa Metals & Mining Co. would establish a joint venture in the Palmer zinc and copper mine in Alaska with owner Constantine...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska--A shallow avalanche on Alaska's Mount McKinley may not have killed four Japanese climbers, but the slide pushed them into a crevasse more than 100 feet (30...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska--Four Japanese climbers are presumed dead after they were swept up by a powerful avalanche on Alaska's Mount McKinley, North America's tallest peak, the...

MONTAGUE ISLAND, Alaska--Cans of Japanese sports drinks, bottles of shochu and fishing buoys with Japanese letters lay wedged between the driftwood on the beaches of this...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska--U.S. scientists say that a volleyball and soccer ball that washed ashore on an island may be the first pieces of debris to arrive in Alaska from last year's...

During the Alaskan winter, dawn is late to break. At 10 a.m., when the sky finally brightens, I get on a tractor driven by my guide Paul Gibson and we set off for a gold ore...

Marubeni Corp. announced that its 100 percent owned subsidiary North Pacific Seafoods Inc. (NPSI) has reached an agreement with Yardarm Knot Inc. to acquire the Red Salmon...

Japan and the United States plan to start early next year a joint experiment to extract methane hydrate from deep underground in Alaska to secure a supply of the relatively new ...