In this aerial photo, the landslide caused by the earthquake disrupts the road in Minamiaso town, Kumamoto prefecture, southern Japan Saturday, April 16, 2016. Credit: Kyodo News via AP Patients ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.