Typhoon Chaba has caused advisories for more than 30,000 people on the island of Tsushima in Nagasaki Prefecture to evacuate their homes as it sweeps through the area causing wave surges, powerful gusts and torrential rain, local media said Wednesday.
A sprawling commercial complex opened here near Fukuoka Airport, but its target is mainly seafaring travelers.
Scientists studying the earthquake that struck southern Japan in April have identified a number of seismological factors that made the tremor so destructive – and warn that should the same factors combine beneath a major city it could bring down a skyscraper.
Kyushu Railway Co. (JR Kyushu) on April 20 resumed operations on a section of the Kyushu Shinkansen Line, which had been entirely suspended since the night of April 14 due to earthquakes that struck Kumamoto and surrounding prefectures.
Three people died and 47 others were injured across Japan as a powerful typhoon moved through the country's southernmost main island of Kyushu on Thursday morning after lashing the islands of Okinawa, local press reported.
The season's eighth typhoon Neoguri made landfall near Akune city in Kagoshima Prefecture in Japan's southwest Kyushu area early Thursday, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.
The major railway operator on Japan ' s southwestern island of Kyushu launched railway sightseeing tours on Tuesday with the newly-constructed sleeper train, the " Seven Stars in Kyushu." The new service is an attempt to carry more tourists from all over the world to the island's countryside, with the aim of stimulating the local economy.
The major railway operator on Japan's southwestern island of Kyushu launched the country's most "luxurious" cruise train on Friday, which will run on rail networks in seven prefectures, railway officials said.
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