A record company in Kagoshima city has been castigated as engaging in “revenge porn” with its plan to sell a CD featuring ...

The southwestern Japanese prefecture of Kumamoto on Wednesday marked the ninth anniversary of a deadly earthquake, the more ...

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Kyushu’s working-age population (15–64) dropped 0.7% to 7 million. Okinawa remains Japan’s youngest prefecture, with a higher ...

KUMAMOTO—Memorial ceremonies were held throughout this prefecture in southern Japan on April 14 to remember the 278 people ...

Kumamoto Governor Takashi Kimura recently affirmed that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSMC) commitment to its ...

Will the government's release of 210,000 tons of stockpiled rice ease supermarket prices that have more than doubled over the past year?

In Japan, rice is everything. From sushi to sweets, the staple is part of every meal. However, prices have been rising ...

Kumamoto Prefecture unveiled the Kumamoto Science Park Promotion Vision, a plan to build a semiconductor-centered science ...

A customer shops for rice at a Marusan supermarket in Koshigaya, Saitama Prefecture, Japan Credit: Soichiro ...

Looking toward the full opening of the Kyushu Shinkansen line in March 2011, the Kumamoto prefectural government asked Kundo Koyama, a radio and television script writer from Amakusa in the prefecture ...

The increasing military use of a civilian airport in southwest Japan, thought to be for contingency drills with China in mind ...