In Kagoshima Prefecture, 220,000 households were without power as of 9 a.m., according to Kyushu Electric Power Co. As of 9 a.m., the typhoon was moving north-northeast at a slow speed of 15 kph ...

A name on a forgotten medicine bag at a crime scene has led to the arrest of a suspect in a series of burglaries across two ...

The recent gaffe by farm minister Taku Eto has led me to ponder the delicate relationship between politics and humor, or more ...

The storm is then expected to move to northern Kyushu, and then to the regions of Shikoku, Chugoku, and Kinki, which includes Osaka Prefecture, the outlet reported. But the storm's exact path ...

This is the first time since statistics began in 1951 that southern Kyushu has entered the rainy season earlier than any ...

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A Japanese school for international students opened at a famous inn in Saga Prefecture on Japan's Kyushu island. Students ...

Positioned far from Tokyo, each of Kyushu's seven prefectures has developed its own distinct character." Journey to Kyushu and learn what makes it the quiet muse of foodies, cultural enthusiasts ...

Japan has more than 1,000 soy sauce breweries. A quarter of them are concentrated in the seven prefectures of the western island of Kyushu: Fukuoka, Saga, Nagasaki, Kumamoto, Oita, Miyazaki ...

Nankai Trough quakes occur every 100 to 200 years along the plate boundary between Suruga Bay in Shizuoka Prefecture and the Hyuganada Sea in Kyushu. The Japan Meteorological Agency is calling on ...

A fossil found nearly three decades ago in southwestern Japan's Kumamoto Prefecture has been identified to be a previously ...

Nintendo Fukuoka will be the company’s fourth official store in Japan, joining Nintendo Tokyo, Nintendo Osaka, and Nintendo ...