Chanthu is expected to make landfall in the northern Kyushu region in southwest Japan on the evening of

, Kumamoto--All the emus that escaped from a tourist ranch in this southwest Japan city on Oct

Bamboo lanterns are seen in front of Kokura Castle in Kitakyushu's Kokurakita Ward on Oct.... Citizen volunteers made about 23, 000 bamboo lanterns and some 7, 000 bamboo paper lanterns for the third edition of the Kokura Castle Takeakari( bamboo light) festival, using bamboo in abandoned forests in the city to help Kitakyushu's" Sustainable Development Goals Future City" initiative.... The volunteer members also light the candles in the lanterns during the event, which will continue until Oct

AMAMI, Kagoshima--Humpback whale-watching tours began for the season around southwest Japan's Amami

horticultural soil company jointly started selling seed potatoes and growing kits in southwest Japan's

22 that the man died of a severe fever from thrombocytopenia syndrome( SFTS), which is transmitted by ixodid ticks.... According to the Kurume municipal public health center, the man was hospitalized on Aug.... 16 for symptoms including fever and fatigue, diagnosed with SFTS three days later, and died on Aug....

2 to confirm whether they were wearing undershirts, the Mainichi Shimbun learned from the school on Sept.... In the hallway in front of the classroom, the boys and girls were put in separate lines about 10 meters apart and made to face the wall while teachers inspected each student visually.... 10, the school's principal issued an apology to the students via the building's broadcasting system....

An Okinawa rail is pictured in this file photo taken in Kunigami, Okinawa Prefecture, in March 2010.... The decision follows the recommendation in May by a UNESCO advisory panel that the islands with diverse ecosystems, home to rare animals and birds including the Amami rabbit, the Iriomote cat and the Okinawa rail, be added to the list.... The Japanese government initially submitted its World Heritage proposal for the islands to the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in Fe

subject to the warning.... The Japan Meteorological Agency( JMA) says that it appears that around

.... 14 in this southwestern Japan city after handing out flyers to children while not wearing a mask