Soy sauce, or shoyu, is one of the essential seasonings that underpin Japanese cuisine. In Kyushu (southwestern Japan), various types of soy sauce have been developed to complement different dishes.

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 ...

KYUSHU, Japan – The little onsen ... Oita’s oldest Japanese confectioner circa 1804. The ingredients for our good eats are seasonally sourced from the fertile land, pure rivers and surrounding ...

Different localities have their own unique flavors. Western Japan's Kyushu region is known for its distinctly sweet soy sauce, which has a surprisingly recent history. Japan has more than 1,000 ...

BEIJING (Kyodo) -- North Korea warned Thursday that Japan's possible deployment of long-range missiles on the southwestern island of Kyushu would make the Japanese archipelago a "common target ...

the first such findings in the Kyushu region, a museum said. They were the also first discoveries of egg fossils from the Late Cretaceous Period (100.5 million to 66 million years ago) in Japan ...