Yuko Kawai, vice president of the Bank of Kochi, will be promoted to the top post, becoming the first woman to lead a ...

Visitors to this port city are met with a bizarre sight worthy of a surreal painting—a two-lane road sticking right out of ...

INO, Kochi Prefecture--In a town famed for its production of traditional Japanese “washi” since the Heian Period (794-1185), the president of a printing company based here knows a lot about paper.

They warned residents to continue staying away from the coast and other waterways. In Kochi Prefecture, residents of some areas were advised to evacuate. It's unclear how much damage the ...

Cherry trees started to bloom in the western Japanese cities of Kochi and Kumamoto on Sunday. Our site uses cookies and other technologies to give you the best possible experience. By using this site ...

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 ...

The sample Somei-Yoshino cherry trees monitored by the Japanese Meteorological Agency bloomed in the cities of Kochi and ...

Between 8:50 p.m. on Thursday and 12:40 p.m. the following day, Kenta Fukudome, 45, allegedly used a passenger vehicle to ...

Tatsuo Hashida, 67, who leads a group of victims and their supporters in the western Japan prefecture of Kochi, said his former wife donated 100 million yen to the Unification Church. "The order ...

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 ...

Three people were found without vital signs in a fire that broke out Monday morning in a house in Kochi, western Japan, and ...

Kochi/Kumamoto, March 23 (Jiji Press)--The ... including the city of Hyuga, Miyazaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan, where the mercury hit 28.3 degrees.