KYUSHU, Japan – The little ... a district within onsen city Beppu in Oita prefecture, which abounds with more hot springs than anywhere else in Japan. With its nostalgic bathhouses, local ...

Head west to Nagasaki Prefecture, where another vital chapter of Kyushu's history is revealed. While it may now seem synonymous with the 1945 atomic bombing, this city was once Japan's ...

Kyushu is a region where the traditional skills of kenjutsu – Japanese swordsmanship – remain deeply embedded, with more dojo (practice halls) for kendo than anywhere else in Japan.

But the journey was not without its setbacks. With no map, they mistook Miyazaki in southeastern Kyushu for Shikoku, Japan’s fourth-biggest island, which is linked by bridges to the country’s ...

MUNAKATA, Fukuoka Prefecture--Physical labor and traditional practices, long the hallmarks of coastal fishing operations in Japan ... which displays a map of his home waters off the northern ...