Japan has launched a sleeper bus with fully flat seats that could help concertgoers and tourists avoid having to pay for a ...

Kochi Ekimae Kanko recently unveiled its new bus equipped with special seats that unfold into flat bunk beds. The bus seats 24 passengers and will begin weekly service on a trial basis between Tokyo ...

Weathernews released on January 29 its second forecasts of when Somei Yoshino cherry trees will bloom in Japan in ...

Kochi Prefecture at 29.5 percent, Iwate Prefecture at 29.1 percent and Tokushima Prefecture at 28.8 percent. On the other hand, Tokyo is the only prefecture with under 20 percent, at 17.5 percent.

The Earth's surface is constantly reshaped by the movement of tectonic plates, which make up the continental crust on which ...

TOKYO (AP) — A solitary sunfish at an aquarium in southwestern ... The large sunfish arrived at the aquarium in February 2024 from the southern coast of Kochi in the Pacific Ocean. The sunfish, a ...

We've listed our five most read stories on The Mainichi news site, from top to bottom, that were published between Jan. 18 ...

For long-distance travel in Japan, most people’s first transportation choice is the shinkansen, followed by a plane if their ...

collaborated with Associate Professor Yutaro Takaya (The University of Tokyo, Waseda University, JAMSTEC), Adjunct Assistant Professor Ken Nakayama (Kochi University), and Professor Yasuhiro Kato (The ...

Tokyo: A strong earthquake with a preliminary ... in the southwestern island of Kyushu, as well as nearby Kochi Prefecture, in Shikoku island, shortly after the quake struck at 9:19 p.m. local ...