kyushu

Ms. Itai hails from Kyushu.

Exploring a century-old prison on Kyushu-island, a vision of a Victorian world left to the caprices of nature and urban development.

Shinichi Takehara, the 50-year-old mayor of the Kagoshima city of Akune, who posted an entry on his blog blaming modern medicine for failing to weed out the weak, later stated in an address that "in order to establish a vibrant society, we need to delve into the definition of life. Unless we prune it back, our whole society could be ruined."

A few pics of food at the Kyushu Matsuri at Yoyogi Park. The fish was amazing!

It was used in preindustrial Japan as a disinfectant. Yet these days Shochu is the country's most popular alcoholic tipple. The clear spirit made from either sweet potato, rice or barley has overtaken the better known Saki as the top selling distilled liquor in Japan and helping fuel this Shochu surge is Australian barley which the Japanese regard as the best there is.

New York’s Ener1 has announced a deal with Kyushu Electric Power to develop rapid recharging stations for electric vehicles.

With a rapid recharge system drivers can plug in and recharge up to 80 percent of the vehicle’s battery capacity in under 20 minutes.

A robber threatened two female workers at a convenience store in Saga with a knife and demanded money, but fled after being beaten by one of them. One of the workers, a 51-year-old woman, shouted at him, "People like you are ruining society!" She then grabbed a kitchen knife in the store and hit the robber with the back of it several times.

Japanese culture just has a way of sucking you in. All-you-can-drink deals across the country, salarymen setting the example of a work-hard, play-hard schedule, and the women… well, where else can you dance with them so freely?