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 ...

KONAN, Kochi Prefecture—Visitors to this port city are met with a bizarre sight worthy of a surreal painting—a two-lane road sticking right out of the townscape into the sky at a 70-degree ...

Compared with last year, the blooming date was the same in Kochi ... and many places registered temperatures of 25 degrees Celsius or higher, including the city of Hyuga, Miyazaki Prefecture ...

HIDAKA, Kochi -- In this village by the pristine waters ... "We created samples and mailed them to various places," Chinzei recalls. After the company was chosen to restore the Ungyo statue ...