The Most On-Time Small Airport – Matsuyama Airport

Matsuyama Airport Terminal Building Co., Ltd. announced that they were named the most on-time small airport in the world in 2021 by CIRIUM, a British aviation data analysis company. This research has …

Matsuyama Baseball Dance PR Video

The Matsuyama Festival Executive Committee recently produced a “Baseball Dance” PR video of a new version of the traditional local dance called Yakyuken Odori. The new version was released last summer in an attempt to …

An Ehime Citizen Goes to Space

Maezawa Yusaku aged 46, the founder of ZOZO, a major clothing store, set off to space from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on the Russian Soyuz spaceship on December 8, 2021. He will stay …

Private PCR Test Center Opens

A private PCR test center for Covid-19, where people can get the result on the day of the test, opened on November 12 in Miyata-chou, Matsuyama City. The Setolabo Laboratory (Takamatsu City, Kagawa Prefecture), which …

A Haiku Poet’s Life to Be Introduced to The World in English

Santoka Taneda (1882-1940) was a free-verse haiku poet who lived in a hut called One-grass Hut in Matsuyama for the last 10 months of his life.

His life …

Paralympians from Ehime and its Partner Mozambique

Four athletes from Ehime participated in the Tokyo Paralympics. Naohide Yamaguchi, mentally challenged, got a gold medal breaking his own world record in the men’s 100-meter breaststroke. This is Ehime’s first Paralympic gold …

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Interaction between Host Towns and Partner Countries

An online event was held on July 29, where Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic host towns in Japan ‘served’ people in their partner countries with dishes using locally grown ingredients. High school students across …

John Manjiro featured in Next Musical

On June 11, the Botchan Theater in Toon City, announced that they planned to show their 16th musical from September lasting one year, called “John, My Love — Seven Years of Tetsu and John …