The Cabinet Office released on March 31 slightly lower death and disaster projections from an expected Nankai Trough ...

The estimated death toll in the event of a massive earthquake in the Nankai Trough was lowered to about 298,000 from the ...

Up to 298,000 people are expected to be killed in Japan due mainly to a tsunami and building collapses if an earthquake of around magnitude 9 occurs in the Nankai Trough off the ...

A world first drives in this town,” reads a banner at the Awakainan Bunkamura cultural complex in Kaiyo, Tokushima Prefecture ...

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

Shikoku, although the smallest of Japan's main islands, plays a huge role in the country's spiritual heritage. It's home to ...

Oil painting’s original owner was a German art dealer convicted of being an accomplice ofnotorious forger. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Tokyo cherry blossoms were forecast to come into bloom earlier than any other region of the country for the second ...

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

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 ...

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

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