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--Over the last decade ... a town on the smallest of Japan’s four main islands known for its paper industry. “If we don’t have the people we can’t make products ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

As a disaster-prone country, Japan has accumulated valuable knowledge and technology in disaster risk reduction and management products, and Kochi Prefecture, known as a leader in disaster risk ...

It operates in a prefecture where the population is ... That is especially important for credit unions that operate locally. Kochi has given Japan several famous cartoonists, and Yamasaki wants ...