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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If I stared too long, the glossy, petrified tree trunk seemed to pulsate energy through the roof, down into the walls and past the fragile washi paper screens. “The house breathes,” Akihiro Tokunaga, ...

Nikkei Asia reports US-based investment firm Asia Pacific Land (APL) is planning to build a $845 million (125 billion yen) facility in the city of Kitakyushu. APL reportedly hopes to develop a 150MW ...

Researchers at Kyushu University provide new evidence that strong environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices ...

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 ...