Japan, the Land of Gold. How True Is the Old Legend
Another major discovery was made in Hokkaido in 1915, and the result was the Konomai gold mine. But these and other deposits had basically given out by the 1980s, and the mines shut down one after the other. Today, gold is mined in Japan only at Hishikari in Kagoshima in southern Kyushu. Hishikari is now one of the best gold mines in the world.