The city of Kumamoto is steeped in the spirit of ... to be immersed in a slice of Japanese cultural history. The Japanese landscape garden of the park, built by the Hosokawa clan in the 17th ...

A historic city on Kyushu, the southernmost of Japan’s four main islands, Kumamoto is renowned for ... consisting of lotus root prepared with miso and Japanese mustard, fried in turmeric flour ...

ASO, Kumamoto Prefecture--Despite pleas from residents ... calves and their mothers,” said Nakagawa, who raises the Japanese Brown cattle breed, a local specialty. Residents also used the ...

The weaker yen is a favorable trend for the Japanese semiconductor industry, too.” Sony Corp. has a plant near the TSMC site in Kumamoto. In addition, Toyota Motor Corp. runs a factory in ...