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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Almost 4 million people in southern Japan were urged to evacuate as Typhoon Shanshan made landfall Thursday, leaving thousands of residents without power and lashing Kyushu island with hurricane-force ...

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 ...

The shoji screen door slides closed behind me. The room is sun-dappled — paper door and latticework walls letting light in while keeping prying eyes out. My shoes have been spirited away and the ...

Ballooning costs, inconvenient access and a local feud are clouding the future of the Kyushu Shinkansen Line’s Nishi-Kyushu route that will partially open on Sept. 23. The 66-kilometer course, the ...

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 ...

In April 1945, as American forces closed in on Japan, Tokyo unveiled Operation Ketsugo, a horrifying plan to unleash kamikaze ...

Record rainfall continued to batter large parts of western Japan on Aug. 14 with no clear end in sight, perhaps for as long as another week. A stalled front dumped record rainfall, leading the Japan ...

Professor Koji Mizoguchi is the first Japanese archaeologist and the first researcher from Kyushu University elected as an International Fellow of the British Academy. Fukuoka, Japan — On 17 July 2024 ...