Two people died after heavy rain hit the Kyushu region from Sunday through Tuesday while four people remain missing. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/13/japan/kumamoto-rain-two-deaths/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #kumamoto #fukuoka #landslides
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The Japan Meteorological Agency issued a heavy rain emergency warning for the city of Tamana and the town of Nagasu in Kumamoto Prefecture at 12:20 a.m. on Monday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/11/japan/rain-emergency-kumamoto-kyushu/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #kumamoto #floods #kyushu
The International Furikake Association aims to launch an app in Indonesia by the end of the year to help manage the health of children there and improve their academic performance. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/05/japan/furikake-indonesia/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #furikake #health #children #apps #manga #kumamoto #indonesia
The number of local governments able to operate without tax allocations from the state thanks to their abundant tax revenues has increased for the fourth consecutive year, the internal affairs ministry has said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/29/japan/society/local-governments-tax-allocations/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #localgovernment #taxes #internalaffairsministry #kumamoto
A 92-year-old man who was inspired as a boy by a WWII-era commando has come to question Japan's wartime actions. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/14/japan/history/giretsu-kuteitai-airborne-unit-wwii/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #history #kumamoto #okinawa #fukuoka #wwii #giretsukuteitai #imperialjapanesearmy #usmilitary
Residents of the village of Kuma in Kumamoto Prefecture on Friday mourned the victims of deadly torrential rains that struck the prefecture five years ago. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/04/japan/kumamoto-floods-fve-years-on/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #kumamoto #floods #depopulation
32C/90F at 9.10pm in the city. おかしいわ
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Crazy 37C in the sun
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Bereaved family members and government officials attended a memorial in Hitoyoshi, Kumamoto Prefecture, on Sunday, just under five years since torrential rain left 67 people dead and two people unaccounted for. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/29/japan/kumamoto-2020-rain-disaster-memorial/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #kumamoto #floods
Taiwan's TSMC and Tokyo University are opening a chip lab on the university's main campus in Tokyo. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/06/12/companies/todai-tsmc-lab/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #taiwan #tsmc #chipmakers #ai #kumamoto #manufacturing #tech #taiwanjapanrelations #universityoftokyo
Around 100 dead cats were discovered at the squalid home of a woman in Kumamoto who belonged to an animal welfare group, a local official said on Wednesday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/04/japan/around-100-dead-cats-found/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #kumamoto #cats #animalwelfare
A fossilized cervical vertebra discovered back in 1996 in southwestern Japan was found to have been from a new genus and species of pterosaur, a prehistoric flying reptile. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/05/19/japan/kumamoto-pterosaur-fossil-new-species/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #kumamoto #paleontology #nipponopterusmifunensis #museums
A Japanese record company is facing a backlash after announcing it would release a CD by Aki Yashiro, who died in 2023, that will include nude photographs of her taken privately. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/18/japan/aki-yashiro-nude-photographs-row/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #akiyashiro #music #enka #kumamoto #takashikimura
Family members Wednesday mourned the death of a then-22-year-old university student who was killed in one of the major earthquakes that hit Kumamoto Prefecture in 2016. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/16/japan/kumamoto-quake-victim-mourned/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #kumamoto #earthquakes #2016kumamotoearthquake
A memorial ceremony was held Monday to mark nine years since the powerful 2016 earthquakes in Kumamoto Prefecture that killed 278 people, with one survivor continuing to share her experience and lessons from the ordeal. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/14/japan/kumamoto-quake-anniversary/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #earthquakes #kumamoto
@hannah I rained yen on the Suica god only to discover half of Kyushu is apostate.
