Japan Gold Corp. announced commencement of drilling at the Ohra prospect within its 100% owned Ohra-Takamine project in southern Kyushu. The Ohra-Takamine project is located within the Hokusatsu Region of the Southern Kyushu Epithermal Gold Province, Japan's large gold producing district, with more than 11 million ounces of combined production from high-grade low-sulphidation epithermal vein deposits.

Ohra-Takamine Project: An extensive data set collected over the Ohra-Takamine project by the Company includes geological mapping, soil geochemistry, CSAMT, gravity, and three diamond drillholes. Interpretation of this combined data set has defined drill targets along the 3.5 km long open-ended corridor of alteration and mineralization defined by the historical Ohra, Takamine and Urushi gold mines. Drilling will initially focus on the prospective un-tested 1.5 km long strike zone between the Ohra and Takamine mines.

The Ohra Prospect: The Ohra mine produced more than 28,000 ounces of gold including 21,000 ounces at grades greater than 20 g/t gold1, prior to closure in 1942. Two drill holes were previously completed by the Company at the Ohra prospect (OTD001 & OTDD20-002). These two drill holes targeted vertical depth extensions of the high-grade Ohra vein shoot, intersecting narrow mineralized vein intervals and indicating a termination of the Ohra shoot in that locality.

However, drill hole OTDD20-002 continued past the projection of the Ohra veins into the footwall intersecting a significant number of banded and sheeted quartz veins in the lower portion of the drill hole. These deeper veins may indicate the presence of concealed parallel vein zone at Ohra. The initially planned drill hole OTDD23-001, located 150 m southwest of the Ohra workings, will target the inferred strike extension of the veins encountered in Ohra footwall in drill hole OTD20-002.

The target is supported by a strong and coincident gold, pathfinder element and clay alteration footprint defined by soil sampling, and the presence of abundant sinter scree along the target zone indicating good preservation. A corridor of coincident CSAMT defined resistive and conductive anomalies along the 1.2 km strike zone between the Ohra and Takamine workings also supports contiguous alteration along the zone. If the planned drill hole is successful, additional drilling will target the 1.2 km long gold and pathfinder element anomalous strike extension towards the Takamine mine workings.