Yuichiro Tamaki, leader of the increasingly popular opposition party in Japan, apologized Saturday for having referred to the ...

Japan’s sidewalk restaurants, known as “yatai,” have almost entirely disappeared—except in Fukuoka, where they’ve undergone a ...

A doctor started working at a clinic on Shimokoshiki Island, which lies off the western coast of Kagoshima Prefecture, in ...

Kyushu is Japan’s third-largest island, and yet hardly anyone I know has been. It’s a total shame, because the region is ...

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