The village of Minamiaso in Kumamoto Prefecture is home to a "hanging boulder" that remained precariously balanced midair at the mouth of a cavern on Mount Gairinzan. Because nothing seemed ...

Shinobu Yamato, left, and her husband Takuya pray for their late son Hikaru, a then 22-year-old university student from the Kumamoto Prefecture ... prefecture's village of Minamiaso on April ...

In the 12 hours through 10:40 a.m. on July 3, rainfall totaled a record 285 millimeters in Yamato, 281.5 mm in Minamiaso, Kumamoto Prefecture, 230.5 mm in Takachiho, Miyazaki Prefecture ...

I hope the trolley train, the line's most popular attraction, will bring even more people to the railway.

Travel through one of the largest calderas in the world at Mt. Aso in Kumamoto Pref. The caldera has fertile ground to sustain crops and livestock.