Japan Gold Corp. announced results of its initial ' framework' drilling program at the Barrick Alliance Mizobe Project in Southern Kyushu, Japan. Drilling has encountered wide, and locally high-grade intervals in the initial, broad spaced framework drill program.

Drill holes MZDD23-001, 002, and 003 successfully intersected gold mineralized intervals including the following notable results (all intervals are down-hole lengths), MZDD23-003. 10.0 m @ 4.3 g/t Au & 6.6 g/t Ag from 122.75 m (incl. 4.0 m @ 6.2 g/t Au & 10.2 g/t Ag) & 14.1 m @ 1.0 g/t Au & 4.8 g/t Ag from 176.95 m. MZDD23-002.

6.1 m @ 1.4 g/t Au & 7.5 g/t Ag from 126.7 m (incl. 2.6 m @ 2.2 g/t Au and 10.6 g/t Ag). The Mizobe project is located within the Hokusatsu Region of Southern Kyushu, Japan's largest gold producing district, with more than 11 million ounces of combined production from low-sulphidation epithermal deposits1-5. Within the Mizobe Project, historical mining activities focused on antimony-rich hydrothermal breccias at the Semari and Nakazon workings, prior to 1942.

In 2000, the Metal Mining Agency of Japan ("MMAJ") drill hole 12MAHT-2 was drilled 1 km to the southeast of the historical antimony workings, targeting a geophysical anomaly, the drill hole intersected a down-hole mineralized interval of 43.35 m @ 0.9 g/t gold, with an included interval of 20.3 m @ 1.2 g/t gold5. No further drilling was completed around this mineralized intersection. Sampling by the Alliance of discontinuous outcrop and quartz-vein /breccia float across a 2 by 2.5 km area showed strong anomalism with channel samples including 24.7 m grading 1.0 g/t gold, and river float samples up to 18.9 g/t gold.

The extent of gold and antimony anomalism was seen as highly encouraging considering much of the target area is concealed by a veneer of post-mineral volcanic ash. Drilling Results.