“You can feel that this tree is still alive.” Some 140 years ago, labourers on Kyushu, the southernmost of Japan’s four main islands, soaked a massive felled tree in the ocean for 12 month ...

A trans-Kyushu road trip, in part along the Yamanami Highway, was the perfect option. Do you have questions about ... The road, known for being among Japan's most scenic, weaves through the ...

One strategy gaining momentum is to do some island hopping, specifically, moving plants and manufacturing to Kyushu ... it could soon be the Detroit of Japan. The prediction could be sped up ...

And then there was all the stuff I wanted to do off-bike ... to forget that Japan is an island nation — but on Kyushu the sea ...