A 23-year-old man who was born in Japan and raised in the Gaza Strip recently enrolled in a vocational school here to study ...

SHIMANTO, Kochi Prefecture--A “yakatabune” leisure boat operator here is taking a unique way to make up for a drop in sightseers caused by the COVID-19 pandemic: letting passengers bring their ...

KONAN, Kochi Prefecture—Visitors to this port city are met with a bizarre sight worthy of a surreal painting—a two-lane road sticking right out of the townscape into the sky at a 70-degree ...

KOCHI -- Western Japan's Kochi Prefecture has teamed up with the character Quagsire from the popular Pokemon franchise to promote the prefecture. The prefecture and The Pokemon Company signed a ...

In addition, the company has entered into a partnership with Kochi Prefecture and local companies to promote its disaster risk reduction and management products to the global market. This ...

Daytime highs in the city of Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture, and in central Tokyo topped 25 degrees for the first time this year. The mercury rose to 24 degrees in Kyoto and Kochi. The warm weather is ...

Night - Clear. Winds from NNW to NW at 6 mph (9.7 kph). The overnight low will be 33 °F (0.6 °C). Mostly sunny with a high of 57 °F (13.9 °C). Winds variable at 2 to 9 mph (3.2 to 14.5 kph ...

Compared with last year, the blooming date was the same in Kochi and three days earlier ... including the city of Hyuga, Miyazaki Prefecture, where the mercury hit 28.3 degrees.

(Kyodo) Kochi (Kyodo) -- Three people were found ... Separately, two bodies were found following a residential fire in Chita, Aichi Prefecture, in central Japan. The fire was reported to ...