A subsidiary of Kyushu Railway Co. (JR Kyushu) concealed water leakage into a high-speed ferry connecting Japan and South Korea. Under the direction and approval of its president, the ferry ...

In Miyazaki on Kyushu, 6,000 homes were evacuated ... A potentially more significant hazard facing Japan is flooding from heavy rainfall. While building codes mandate resilience to typhoon ...

Torrential rains in Kyushu, southwestern Japan, have claimed at least two lives as of 5 p.m. on Monday. There are numerous reports of missing people. A 77-year-old woman was killed in Soeda Town ...

The quake hit at 1:08 a.m. and registered upper 5 on the Japan Meteorological Agency’s intensity scale of 7 in the two prefectures on the main southern island of Kyushu. It had an estimated ...

The island of Kyushu, located in the southwest of Japan and sandwiched between warm ... breached levees and caused deadly flooding. The bars in the graphic above indicate the amount of rainfall.

A typhoon named ‘Shanshan’ battered southern Japan on Thursday with intense winds and torrential rain, resulting in at least ...

If you read Kyushu's palms, you will find lines that run deep, telling vivid stories of Japan from a precious past, perhaps forgotten elsewhere. In its present is a world of Japanese culture ...

(Mainichi/Munehisa Ishida) FUKUOKA -- "White powder" found by a train conductor in a bathroom of a train that had not yet departed from JR Kokura Station in the southwest Japan city of Kitakyushu ...

From ramen stalls and pottery kilns to volcanoes and beaches, Kyushu offers immense variety for adventurous travellers keen to veer off Japan's beaten path. Japan's third-largest and southernmost ...

Kyushu, Japan’s high-tech hub known as the "Silicon Island," is looking to collaborate with Vietnam in the semiconductor industry. A delegation of semiconductor firms from Kyushu recently visited ...