The first earthquake to register an intensity of lower 6 on the main western island of Shikoku injured eight people and disrupted traffic but caused no tsunami, authorities said. The offshore ...

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 ...

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Powerful Typhoon No. 7 is projected to slam into the main island of Honshu or Shikoku around Aug. 15, and the Japan Meteorological Agency is now gearing up to issue heavy rainfall warnings.

Blessed with majestic peaks, pristine waterways and surrounded by the Pacific Ocean and the Seto Inland Sea, the island of Shikoku provides a myriad opportunities to explore nature. It is also the ...

Takamatsu is especially attractive right now with the weak yen The made-for-Instagram descent into Takamatsu Airport follows ...

From traditional snow country to a hotel staffed by robots, here are five hidden gems that’ll make Japan feel anything but ...

Xochitl Édua Elías Ilosvay (researcher) and Kazuki Seike (translator) during a personal interview with a coastal fisher at a ...

JR Shikoku has suffered continued losses due to population decline and the expansion of a highway. See the initiatives the company is taking to aid recovery and revitalize the region. According to ...

Harris Rauf ripped through Australia’s middle-order for second consecutive game, and this time it wasn’t in vain as a sparkling... The Ministry of Education has announced that all schools in the ...

The map of the Kansai, Chugoku and Shikoku regions in western Japan. (Google Maps) I will be flying to Kansai International Airport (in Osaka Prefecture) in the end of October and renting a ...