‘Please eat with wasabi or salt first!!!’ It’s midday in Kochi, an agricultural city on Shikoku, the smallest of Japan’s four main islands. I’m at Katsuobune Tosa Tataki Dojo, a ...

Japan, May 15, 2022. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon Noriaki Ito, the head chef at a century-old restaurant Tsukasa in Kochi City, said he too had "never seen such fatty katsuo during this season of the year".

KOCHI CITY, Japan -- It would be an understatement to say that gardening is a way of life in Japan. With a long-standing commitment to honoring nature through elegant landscaping, it is no wonder ...

In Japan, soba noddles are eaten at the end of New Year’s Eve to “cut off the misfortunes and hardships of the past year and not carry them over to the next year.” Their all-you-can-eat ...

There's an annual festival held in the Japanese prefecture of Kochi that culminates with a competition to see who can drink sake the fastest. Men get given 1.8 litres of sake in a big cup and ...

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

Specimen cherry tree in the Sannomaru, the largest terrace of Kochi Castle, comes in bloom on March 23, 2025. (Kyodo) KOCHI (Kyodo) -- Cherry trees have begun to bloom in Kochi on Japan's western ...

KOCHI--The city’s Somei-Yoshino cherry trees are now officially in bloom, putting Kochi ahead of the rest of the country in announcing the start of the cherry blossom season. The Kochi Local ...