Hatsushima is a small, unstaffed station on Japan’s Kisei Line which was built in 1938 and was electrified only in 1978.

As the summer season begins, the arrival of mangoes has also started. This is one such fruit, which is available for only 2 ...

Located deep within Kyushu’s Shimabara Peninsula, this hot spring town offers dramatic scenery worth the effort it takes to ...

A startup in Tokyo has applied for approval from the Japanese government to manufacture and sell heart muscle sheets derived from stem cells known as iPS, the company said. It was the first ...

Escape the crowds and discover a quieter Japan at these 12 hotels, from mountaintop ryokan to island hideaways.

A prototype of Kyushu University’s Direct Air Capture and Utilization (DAC-U) device and its ultra-thin nanomembrane is on display at Expo 2025, Osaka, Kansai, Japan. The machine on the right captures ...

Professor Shigenori Fujikawa and his research team at Expo 2025. From left to right: Roman Selyanchyn (Associate Professor, Kyushu University), Shigenori Fujikawa, (Professor, Kyushu University), ...