The Kyushu region was being battered by strong winds, heavy rain and high waves early Thursday morning ahead of a likely landfall by powerful Typhoon Shanshan, with emergency warnings in place and the ...

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 ...

Japan has issued evacuation orders for nearly a million people in the path of Typhoon Shanshan, as it braces for what officials say could be one of the strongest storms to ever hit the region.

At least four people have died after a powerful storm hit southern Japan on Thursday, with millions ordered to evacuate and hundreds of flights cancelled across the country. Shanshan made landfall on ...

Tokyo — A powerful storm lashed southern Japan with torrential rain and strong winds Thursday, causing at least three deaths as it started a crawl up the length of the archipelago and raised concerns ...

Set to detonate about an hour to a week after impact, a bomb dropped in the later stages of World War II didn't explode for nearly 80 years at Miyazaki Airport in Miyazaki. The bomb that created a ...

Ebino City, located in Miyazaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu, has released two online videos aimed at improving awareness of the city worldwide. The two videos are titled "The Charms of Ebino" ...

TOKYO — Japan issued its first warning Thursday about the possibility of a long-feared "megaquake" after a powerful 7.1-magnitude temblor struck off its southern coast, sparking a tsunami advisory but ...

A mega-typhoon was slowly heading north-northeast around noon on Sept. 19 while damaging buildings, killing one and causing injuries mainly in the Kyushu region. Typhoon No. 14, one of the most ...

As someone who has been in Kyushu for over ten years, I can attest that it’s a pretty nice place to live. The island consists of seven prefectures: Fukuoka, Oita, Saga, Nagasaki, Kumamoto, Miyazaki ...

Gazing out at the Japanese-style garden and surrounding countryside from Obi Hattori-tei, it’s easy to imagine you’re at a samurai feast. The restaurant operates in a wooden building more than a ...

Several of Japan's nuclear power plants were rattled by an earthquake on Monday. A tsunami warning was also issued after the magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck the Hyuga-nada Sea off the coast of the ...