Japan Gold Corp. reported encouraging geochemical and geophysical results from the Barrick Alliance regional work programs covering the Mizobe Project in the Southern Kyushu Epithermal Gold Province. Highlights: The Barrick Alliance regional programs, currently in progress, will cover all 29 projects (collectively approximately 1,600 square km) and include: Geochemistry - multielement geochemical stream sediment surveying, bulk leach extractable gold (BLEG) analysis and rock float sampling; Geophysics - gravity surveys; The Mizobe Project has been covered by both geochemistry and geophysics; 84 rock float samples collected with 54 assaying gold greater than 0.5 g/t Au including 22 assaying greater than 4 g/t Au with a peak value of 18.9 g/t Au; Several gravity-high features defined across the project coincide with at least four clusters of gold in rock float anomalies; Gravity data has undergone additional processing for structure detection and has identified several favorably oriented northeast trending features associated with gravity-highs. The Mizobe Project, which includes the Mizobe and Mizobe 1st Extension, is located along the western edge of the Kagoshima Graben in the gold-fertile Hokusatsu Region, Japan's largest gold producing region, with more than 11 million ounces of combined production from low-sulphidation epithermal deposits 2,3,4,5. The Mizobe Project covers 5,163.1 hectares and forms part of a larger contiguous project package covering 96,227 hectares or 80% of the prospective, explorable ground in the Hokusatsu Region. As part of Barrick Alliance regional assessment programs, stream sediment sampling, BLEG analysis, rock float sampling, and semi-detailed gravity surveying have been completed across the Mizobe Project. Of 84 rock float samples collected within the project 54 gave gold assays greater than 0.5 g/t Au including 22 which yielded results greater than 4 g/t Au, with a peak value of 18.9 g/t Au. Pathfinder elements including antimony are also strongly anomalous. Rock float sampling has confirmed several known anomalous drainage basins including those containing the historic Semari and Chuzono antimony mines, as well as highlighting two new anomalous catchments, the Tamari valley and the Setodan valley on the western side of the project and the Fusayama valley, one km west of the Tamari valley. Anomalous rock samples collected comprise quartz-sulphide hydrothermal breccias, proximal to the Semari workings, and banded quartz vein style mineralization prevalent in the Fusayama and Tamari areas southeast of the historic workings. Strong antimony-gold anomalism and the superimposition of banded quartz veins on hydrothermal breccia, indicate the exposure of the upper portions of a gold bearing epithermal system. Deeper gold-rich feeder veins of the epithermal system will be the target of future exploration. The level and extent of the gold and antimony anomalism is highly encouraging as there is limited exposure of pre-mineralization host rock with much of the project area being covered by post- mineral volcanic ash. The BLEG sample assay results are pending and will help to further identify and refine anomalous catchments within the Mizobe Project and across the Hokusatsu Region.