YUME NO MACHI SOUZOU IINKAI CO LTD to Acquire Kagoshima-based ...

The chief priest of a Buddhist temple that won the rights to acquire the pro-Pyongyang headquarters building in Tokyo has revealed he has failed to gather enough funds to go through with the purchase. It's over. We have given up, Ekan Ikeguchi, who ...

KAGOSHIMA An annual sand art festival opened Thursday on a beach in Kagoshima Prefecture, featuring an array of animal-shaped creations. An elephant, a whale and a unicorn are among around 100 sculptures produced by artists from Japan and abroad ...

Grill your own A5 wagyu beef from Kagoshima on a salt block grill made with a 100 percent natural pink salt block from the Himalayas. A5 is the highest grade for Japanese beef. During May and June, Hatsu is offering a Kaiseki cuisine set including ...

OSAKA, May 1 (Xinhua)-- A 40-year-old man was killed Wednesday after being gored by his own bull in a bull ring in a town on an island of the southern Japanese prefecture of Kagoshima, local press reported. The terrifying incident happened in the ...

OSAKA, April 23 (Xinhua)-- Two workers were killed after a landslide occurred Tuesday afternoon at a road construction site on Amami Oshima Island in the southwestern Japanese prefecture of Kagoshima, local officials said. The accident happened at ...

FLASH: 2 BURIED IN LANDSLIDE IN JAPAN'S KAGOSHIMA --

KAGOSHIMA Weekend storms in east and west Japan claimed three lives, the latest being a man who drowned in Yakushima, Kagoshima Prefecture, police said Monday. According to police, the 29-year-old man was inspecting a rope near a coastal embankment ...

KAGOSHIMA Panoramic shots taken from mountain trails on Yakushima Island, a World Natural Heritage site, will be available online via Google Inc.'s Street View service, possibly this summer, according to the Japanese unit of the U.S. Internet ...

TOKYO A Buddhist temple on Tuesday won an auction for North Korea's de facto embassy in Japan, after it was seized by authorities for unpaid debts, the religious body said. The Saifukuji temple in Kagoshima topped the bidding, making an offer of ...