A massive power outage hit the Shikoku region in southwestern Japan on Saturday, November 9, at around 8:20 p.m., leaving ...

Photo credit: Shikoku Camera Club Divided into four prefectures, Kagawa, Ehime, Tokushima and Kochi, Shikoku offers visitors an ideal opportunity to experience the distinctive cultures of multiple ...

while two were hurt in Oita Prefecture, which is on the southwestern main island of Kyushu. Shikoku Electric Power Co. said power generation output fell about 2 percent at the No. 3 reactor of ...

In years past, relatively few international visitors to Japan made the trip to Kochi Prefecture, an area on the island of Shikoku that rarely appears on lists of must-see destinations. But in ...

Heatstroke alerts were in place for Tokyo and 19 prefectures in western and eastern ... in the deaths of two women on the main island of Shikoku on July 6. A woman in her 90s was found collapsed ...

The route, known as the Shikoku Henro, includes 88 temples where ... a local inn near Ryozenji Temple in Naruto City, Tokushima Prefecture. The inn is one of several so-called "henro-yado." ...

Shikoku Electric Power suffered a large-scale blackout on Saturday night and will file a detailed report on the cause and the measures it will take to prevent a recurrence to Japan's Ministry of ...

Western Japan's Kochi Prefecture has teamed up with the character Quagsire from the popular Pokemon franchise to promote the ...

Heavy rain soaked portions of the Kyushu, Chugoku and Shikoku regions in western Japan, with the city of Matsuyama, in Ehime Prefecture, issuing the highest-level alert and urging nearly 190,000 ...

Whether you’re looking for spectacular Shikoku and Kyushu autumn foliage or exploring ... often called “the roof of Hokkaido,” is bigger than some of Japan’s smaller prefectures and remains a natural ...