A Vivid Record of a Pre-War Hometown by a Local Journalist

A collection of essays, written between 1936 and 1941 by Seido Soga (1879-1959), a journalist from Seiyo City, southwestern Ehime, titled Furusato Monogatari (Tales of my Hometown) was published …

Friendship between Shikoku and Akita with Jakoten

In October, the Governor of Akita Prefecture, northern Japan, said in a meeting in his prefecture, “Food on the Shikoku Island, including four prefectures of Ehime, Kagawa, Tokushima, and Kochi, is bad. When …

Raising Awareness of Population Decline

Ehime Prefecture’s population is now approximately 1.29 million people. Since 2014, it has decreased by more than 10,000 per year. According to the prefecture’s future estimates, if no new measures are taken, the number of …