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 ...

OCHI, Kochi Prefecture--A monument of the Dragon from Mamoru Hosoda’s animated feature film “Belle” was set up at a museum in Ochi, a town known as the real-life location of the area where ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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Born in 1928, Osamu Miyawaki grew up in the Kochi Prefecture before joining the South Manchuria Railway Company at 15 years old. There, he witnessed the final days of World War II in China and ...