A 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Miyazaki Prefecture east of Kyushu, Japan, and a tsunami warning was issued. The Japan Meteorological Administration announced that a 6.9 magnitude ...

Powerful Typhoon No. 10 made landfall near Satsuma-Sendai in Kagoshima Prefecture around 8 a.m. on Aug. 29, prompting widespread evacuation orders and disaster-related warnings. Strong gusts of wind ...

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 ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency urged Kyushu residents to be wary of aftershocks from the strong Jan. 13 earthquake but said the temblor did not heighten the risk of a dreaded Nankai Trough megaquake.

Located on the southern island of Kyushu, Miyazaki Prefecture sits between Oita’s renowned onsen towns to the north and Kagoshima, the region to the south noted for its famed black pork. While often ...

MIYAZAKI, Japan -- Miyazaki prefecture, on Japan's southernmost main island of Kyushu, is leveraging anime and manga for tourism promotion through public-private partnerships. One such initiative is ...

Early each weekday morning, local restaurants and hotels send staff to bid on freshly caught fish at a dockside market. Seabirds flutter about the boats as they unload their bounty pier side before an ...

A consistently warm climate makes Miyazaki Prefecture a perfect year-round getaway. The prefecture also has its prefectural take on Japanese food, as well as locally grown mango. Drive down the ...

Developed rain clouds are hanging over southern Kyushu, bringing intermittent downpours to Kagoshima Prefecture. In the hour through 4 p.m., Land Ministry rain gauges recorded 46 millimeters in Ebino ...

That's what popped into my head unbidden upon my return to Tokyo from a recent motorbike trip. And there was a lot packed into that tiny phrase: 4,000 kilometers worth of riding to, around, and back ...

Huge waves crash onto jagged rocks below Udo Shrine, the mythical birthplace of the father of Japan’s first emperor, on the east coast of the country’s southern island of Kyushu. Legend has it that ...