Japan Gold Corp. announce acceptance by the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry ("METI") of 51 new prospecting rights applications covering approximately 145 sq km around its Barrick Alliance Togi Project, on the Noto Peninsula of Honshu Island. During November 2020, the Barrick Alliance collected 412 rock samples and 88 bulk leach extractable gold (BLEG) samples across the Togi Project. Systematic stream sediment sampling defined a continuous, 8 km long corridor of gold anomalous drainages within the Togi Project. These new additions to the Togi Project are part of the Barrick Alliances strategy to continue to expand the portfolio based on the identification of key prospectivity indicators throughout the gold provinces of Japan. Togi Project, now comprising 184.7 sq km, is located on the northern flank of a regional graben structure, hosted in early Miocene andesite volcanics, and under-lain by a northeast trending gravity anomaly. A similar geological and structural setting is noted 160 km along strike to the northeast at Sado Island. Sado Island hosts Japan's second large gold mine, the Sado Mine which produced of 2.5 million ounces of gold and 74 million ounces of silver1 prior to its closure in 1974. Gold mineralization was discovered in the Togi area in 1896 and historic records from the Togi Goldfield report seven separate areas of workings along a 7 km trend which produced a combined 48,000 oz of gold and 180,000 oz of silver between 1910-212. The Mori vein from the Hirochi group at the northeast end of the corridor was reported to be up to 4 m wide with production grades averaging 14 g/t gold2. Gold and silver mineralisation from the Urugami veins in the southwest of the corridor are hosted in stockwork vein and breccia zones. Mapped Sinter and the narrower stock-work style of quartz vein mineralization at Urugami indicate the top of a hot-spring epithermal system is preserved, supporting the potential for deeper boiling-zone vein targets at Togi.