A whale shark that had been released off west Japan's Kochi Prefecture last month for purposes including ecological research ...

This workshop featured renowned Japanese manga artists Yoshihiro Iwagami and Ms Yuka Yamashita from Kochi Prefecture, Japan.

They will be shipped out to places including Kochi Prefecture, Tokyo and Osaka until late November and will be mainly sold as gifts. Note: Suisho means "crystal." Japanese original The easy ...

A massive power outage hit the Shikoku region in southwestern Japan on Saturday, November 9, at around 8:20 p.m., leaving more than 360,000 homes without power and halting train services. According to ...

A dead whale shark has been discovered in a river in western Japan. It was later confirmed that the fish had been kept in an ...

The trend resulting from rapid depopulation will affect both metropolitan and rural areas, the National Institute of ...

In the nearly three decades that Pokémon has been around, the franchise’s influence has extended far beyond the scope of most ...

Night - Mostly clear. Winds NNW at 6 mph (9.7 kph). The overnight low will be 52 °F (11.1 °C). Sunny with a high of 75 °F (23.9 °C). Winds variable at 2 to 6 mph (3.2 to 9.7 kph). Sunny today ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency issued its first ... A tsunami advisory was issued for the Uwakai coast of Ehime Prefecture, Kochi Prefecture and the Bungo Channel coast of Oita Prefecture.

The number of school buildings without quake-resistance decreased by 60 to 135. By prefecture, Ehime saw the lowest ...