A Japanese language school for international students has opened at a long-established inn in Saga Prefecture in southwestern Japan's Kyushu r･･･ ...

For this Kyoto edition, we independently scoped out more than 350 venues and distilled the list down to the very best of the ...

The resulting list of over 100 places — arranged below by island and, within that, by prefecture, in alphabetical order — isn’t a typical or comprehensive guide. But it is, hopefully ...

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Takashi Kimura, the governor of Kumamoto in southern Japan where Ashiro ... I hope that Ms Yashiro, who is the pride of the people of the prefecture, will not be disrespected.' ...

Singer Aki Yashiro is seen in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward in this February 2023 file photo. (Mainichi/Yohei Koide) A music label in Kagoshima, southwestern Japan, has sparked controversy by announcing ...

The southwestern Japanese prefecture of Kumamoto on Wednesday marked the ninth anniversary of a deadly earthquake, the more intensive of a pair of quakes that hit the region, with over 270 victims ...

Family members Wednesday mourned the death of a then-22-year-old university student who was killed in one of the major earthquakes that hit Kumamoto Prefecture in 2016. Hikaru Yamato's 57-year-old ...

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Kumamoto University and Kumamoto Prefecture announced the program on Feb. 3, saying it is designed to raise the school’s research level for semiconductors. Participating students hired by the ...

At that time, he became mesmerized by the landscapes of Kumamoto Prefecture. He returned to ... Madoka Kubo runs a budget hotel near Hitoyoshi Station and opened Rail World Hitoyoshi, a model ...