The Moji Port in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture — which faces the Kanmon Straits separating the islands of Honshu and Kyushu — once saw the third-largest share of Japan’s annual exports flowing ...
Japan stunned Wales in Kitakyushu with a first-Test fightback that condemned the visitors to an 18th successive defeat. The tourists led 19-7 at the break, but Japan scored all the second-half points ...
Members of the "sushi capital city Kitakyushu council" are seen in Kitakyushu's Kokurakita Ward on Aug. 7, 2024. (Mainichi/Chie Yamashita) KITAKYUSHU -- The government of this southwestern Japan city ...
Japan's Kitakyushu Airport has been identified by a government-commissioned survey as being appropriate for privatisation. The airport is the closest in Japan to Korea (just 200km distant) and the ...
KITAKYUSHU -- Hesaki Lighthouse in this southwestern Japan city's Moji Ward was first lit in 1872, but its origin dates back decades earlier, when a Buddhist monk started lighting torches for maritime ...
Alight at Kokura Station to explore the rugged charms of Kitakyushu, a powerhouse of a port city that gave birth to Japan’s modern steel industry in the early 1900s and remains a key industrial hub – ...