Kyushu, Japan News

The amphibious assault ship Bonhomme Richard, long a fixture at Naval Base San Diego, its homeport, will leave on deployment for the western Pacific on Feb.

I once took a ferry from Kagoshima on the southernmost tip of Kyushu to Amami Oshima, halfway to Okinawa.

The amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard is scheduled to depart its homeport of San Diego next week for a deployment to the Western Pacific, Navy officials announced Friday.

The Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon , Oregon Nikkei Endowment, and 10 undersigned Asian and Pacific American communities are outraged by the racially offensive and fear-mongering television ad by Peter Hoekstra, Republican candidate for US Senate in Michigan.

The signals have been developed by Taro Ochiai, a professor at Kyushu Sangyo University, with the first set of traffic lights installed in the southern city of Fukuoka.

His skin is a preposterous shade of yellow more appropriate to a Kool-Aid flavor.

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Florida's much-traveled governor is expected to focus on Asia for at least one trade mission in 2013.

Unless you were in Michigan, you didn't see a regional Super Bowl ad during Sunday's game that some are calling racist against Asians, but thanks to the Internet, the commercial can be seen everywhere and has sparked outrage across the country.

It is hard to decide what is the most despicable thing about senatorial Republican hopeful Pete Hoekstra's Superbowl ad attacking rival Democratic Senator Debbie Stabenow.

But there is one group that still likes classical music and, what's more, pays to hear it performed: Asians.

I had just arrived with a friend named Henry on the island of Yakushima, which lies in the East China Sea about 190 km south of Kagoshima in Kyushu.

Early Friday morning, operations stopped at Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Shin-Oita thermal power station in Oita.

Two years ago, the authorities in this gritty rust belt region declared war on the yakuza, Japan's entrenched organized crime syndicates.

The Naples festival seeks to expose the wonders of varied cultures to people with shared heritage and those with none.

Kyushu Electric Power Co. said Friday all three generators at its Shin-Oita power plant in Oita had been halted because pipes at a fuel supply facility are frozen due to cold weather.

A 51-year-old husband was turned in by his wife after he made 109 emergency calls to police in six hours just to swear at them.

What do symphony orchestras and cigarette companies have in common? It's the age problem.

During a visit to Kanawha County last week Masafumi Kondo, the superintendent of Japan's National Police Agency, reportedly said there are about 10,000 Japanese citizens working and attending college in West Virginia.