Over a million performers and spectators will flock to Shikoku this weekend for one of Japan's largest dance festivals after organizers stepped up efforts to accommodate foreign visitors. The annual Awa Odori festival, which originates from the Buddhist custom of honoring the spirits of one's ...
As part of the government's drive to relocate some of its Tokyo-centric functions to other cities to promote regional revitalization, the Consumer Affairs Agency inaugurated a new office in Tokushima Prefecture on Monday. The office, set up in the Tokushima Prefectural Government building, will deal ...
A K-1 kickboxer rescued two men who became trapped after their vehicles collided in Naruto, Tokushima Prefecture, the police said. According to the police, K-1 fighter Kosuke Komiyama, 30, who operates a gym in Kawasaki, was passing by when a car and a truck collided ...
A former mayor of Mima, Tokushima Prefecture, was sentenced Wednesday to 4½ years in prison for a car crash that killed three people a year ago. The Tokushima District Court handed down the sentence to Hisashi Makita, 75, who was the mayor at the time ...
An organization promoting the revival of the Oriental White Stork, which went extinct in Japan almost half a century ago, said at least one egg laid by a nesting female has apparently hatched in Naruto, Tokushima Prefecture. The hatching would be the first outside a ...
High-speed broadband. An award-winning brewpub built with recycled materials as part of a "zero waste" mission. An artist-in-residence program. Organic pizza from a wood-fired oven. There is new life in the mountains of Tokushima Prefecture, in the neighboring towns of Kamiyama and Kamikatsu, even as ...
In another downside to rapidly graying Japan, the nation's active hunters — in decline and aging — are having a hard time keeping up with their hunting dogs that dash after their prey. That's a big headache for prefectural governments nationwide that need hunters to ...
A small town in western Japan has been attracting foreign visitors after its efforts to reduce waste to zero by 2020 have become widely known via YouTube. The documentary video, titled "How This Town Produces No Trash," with English narration and captions, explains how the ...
The city of Tokushima has attracted a record amount of donations after it added anime posters to the list of goods handed out when people contribute to the furusato nozei (hometown tax deduction) system. The posters, made every year since 2009 by local anime production ...
Police investigators in Shikoku have cleverly acquired a crime suspect's image from a reflection in the victim's eye that was captured by smartphone, sources say. The Tokushima Prefectural Police sent the image as evidence to the Tokushima District Public Prosecutor's Office, which is handling the ...
Officers at five prisons and juvenile detention facilities in Shikoku have been reprimanded over errors in administering medicine to inmates, it was learned Tuesday. An information disclosure request to the Takamatsu correctional bureau of the Justice Ministry has found that, between January 2012 and September ...
A woman run over by a distracted driver in Tokushima Prefecture is believed to be Japan's first death related to "Pokemon Go," police have announced. The suspect, 39-year-old farmer Keiji Goo, told police he was playing the immersive smartphone game while driving in the city ...
