If Japan is on your list to visit, you should consider visiting the southwestern region of Kyushu. It includes the neon-drenched cityscapes of Fukuoka and Nagasaki, the bubbling hot springs of Beppu, ...

Kyushu is the third-largest island in Japan and is located in the southwestern part of the country. It is one of the four main islands of Japan, along with Honshu (where Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, and ...

Named for the island’s status as the world’s 36th largest, the train offers a slower way to see some of the region’s rural ...

Driving along the Yamanami Highway from Kumamoto to Beppu and back brings beautiful views and chances to relax in hot-spring ...

One February afternoon, I pulled on rubber boots and followed the writer and photographer Prairie Stuart-Wolff into a weed-choked gully not far from her rural home in northern Kyushu, the southernmost ...

Japan's Kyushu Railway Company, or JR Kyushu, said Monday that it will withdraw from the passenger ship business operated by a subsidiary. The business is run by JR Kyushu Jet Ferry, which covered up ...

We at Popular Photography were deeply saddened when we heard about the series of earthquakes that struck the island of Kyushu, Japan recently. We hope that the recovery efforts and healing process go ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency is forecasting heavy snow across parts of Japan through early Jan. 3 and warned of potential ...

Typhoon Shanshan made landfall in southern Japan on Thursday, threatening “unprecedented” high winds, waves, heavy rainfall and powerful storm surges, according to Japan’s disaster management agency.

As global warming advances, the amount of rainfall brought by typhoons to Japan could increase by about 3.1 times, ...