Nissan is considering closing several factories in Japan and overseas as part of a major cost-cutting plan. The company may ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

Researchers report on ionospheric sporadic E layer (Es) activity during the Mother's Day geomagnetic storm. The team found that the Es layers were significantly enhanced over Southeast Asia, Australia ...