For the first time in 62 years, a region other than Okinawa Prefecture or the Amami islands in far southern Japan is in the ...

This is the first time since statistics began in 1951 that southern Kyushu has entered the rainy season earlier than any ...

A Japanese language school for international students has opened at a long-established inn in Saga Prefecture in southwestern Japan's Kyushu r･･･ ...

Scientists from Kyushu University have identified the long-sought “orange gene” behind ginger fur in domestic cats—a deletion ...

What makes orange cats orange? For over 60 years, scientists have been searching for the answer. Researchers from Japan have ...

Researchers have discovered how orange cats got their coats — and why so many of them are male. The coat color comes from a genetic mutation on the X chromosome of orange, calico and tortoiseshell ...

From Tama, Japan's most famous stationmaster calico cat, to the lasagna-loving, ginger Garfield, cats with orange fur are ...

Researchers at Kyushu University in Japan have pinpointed the X-linked mutation behind orange fur in house cats.

Nissan is reportedly considering shutting down multiple car assembly plants in Japan and overseas as part of a sweeping ...

The Kyushu and Shikoku regions are experiencing intermittent rains due to moist air flowing toward a weather front around the East China Sea. Southern Kyushu is likely to see clouds and rain for about ...

A fossil found nearly three decades ago in southwestern Japan's Kumamoto Prefecture has been identified to be a previously ...