Southern Gateway: Kyushu

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Schools of carp, or koinobori, fly at the Tsuetate spa in Oguni in clelbration of Children's Day, the last in Japan's Golden ...
A successful lunar landing pleases a father and his children posing for a snapshot at Space World in Kitakyushu. The theme pa...
Treasures in hand, a family carries bowls in the thatch-roofed village of Sarayama, where potters work in a style called Onta...
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Veils of steam drift over Beppu, Japan's most famous - or infamous - hot-springs resort. Tourists flock here for the onsen (s...
Fuminori Honda treads a floor of dried mud while revisiting the house, since razed. It sat more than a hundred yards from the...
A one-two punch from Mount Unzen in 1991 clobbered homes in Shimabara with rocks and hot ash, then swamped them with mud when...
Elbow room for a crowded nation, Aso-Kuju National Park entertains riders in the Aso caldera, measuring 11 by 15 miles. Inhab...
The aping of America can be found along almost any roadway. This garish street in suburban Fukuoka, a corridor that, for chao...
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Ghostly forms of vessels called utase bune haunt Yatsushiro Sea on a misty day as they trawl for prawns, crabs, and small fis...
Cries of Kampai! - Cheers! - rise from fishermen toasting their first big catch of the season: 170 yellwtail netted off the i...
Robotic arms that can stop on a yen weld bodies of the Mark II hardtop made only for domestic sale, at Toyota's new plant in ...
During the 1930's a chemical plant began dumping lethal methylmercury into Minamata Bay. The eating of contaminated fish led ...
During festivals in the Takachiho region of Miyazaki Prefecture in southeastern Kyushu, dancers reenact Shinto creation stories.
Massaged into ineffable bliss, a hotel patron in Kagoshima finds solace in a bath sanctified by a shrine to a god of water an...
Mount Fuji of a man called Konishiki, 580 pounds of him, clowns around before catching a ferry for a sumo exhibition in tiny ...
Visitng school children seem oblivious to the significance of the Nagasaki Peace Statue in the city's Heiwa Koen, Peace Park.
Japanese women wearing yukata, tradtional summer robes at the Hakata Dontaku Festival, Fukuoka, Kyushu, Japan.
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Spa-Goers Walk Steam-Filled Bridge
Hosokawa Mori former Prime Minister and Governer of Kyushu, making pottery. Yugawara
Hosokawa Mori former Prime Minister and Governer of Kyushu. Yugawara
During festivals in the Takachiho region of Miyazaki Prefecture in southeastern Kyushu, dancers reenact Shinto creation stori...
Hot Roller Control Room.Nippon Steel Mill.Kitakyushu, Japan
Nippon Steel Mill.Kitakyushu, Japan
Nippon Steel Mill.Kitakyushu, Japan
Nippon Steel Mill.Kitakyushu, Japan
Nippon Steel Mill.Kitakyushu, Japan
Oyster beds. Amakusa Island, Nagasaki, Japan
Rice planting..Amakusa Island, Nagasaki, Japan
Yellow tail fishing..Goto Islands, Nagasaki, Japan
Fishermen celebrate they catches..Goto Islands, Nagasaki, Japan
Goto Islands, Nagasaki, Japan
Sumo Wrestlers at exhibition match..Goto Island, Nagasaki, Japan
Sumo Wrestlers at exhibition match..Goto Island, Nagasaki, Japan
Sumo Wrestlers at exhibition match..Goto Island, Nagasaki, Japan
Sumo Wrestlers at exhibition match..Goto Island, Nagasaki, Japan
Easter vigil with priest from Ireland..Amakusa, Nagasaki, Japan
U.S. Naval Base.Sasebo, Nagasaki, Japan
"Living National Treasure" - Pottery maker..Arita, Nagasaki, Japan
Sakitsu, Nagasaki, Japan
Unzen Jigoku (Hell) Spa.Shimabara, Nagasaki, Japan
Cherry Blossoms.Peace Park, Nagasaki, Japan
"99 Islands".Sasebo, Nagasaki, Japan
Isahaya Bay Wheat fiefs and landfill.. Nagasaki, Japan
Huis Ten Bosch.Sasebo, Nagasaki, Japan
Beppu, Japan's most famous spa town.