KIKUCHI, Kumamoto — To increase women’s role in providing support in areas hit by disaster, a workshop for them to learn how to operate a forklift was held in Kikuchi, Kumamoto Prefecture, in January.

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About three hours from the capital city of Quito, Ecuador, the cloud forest feels primeval and otherworldly ... You hear nothing but the wind and bird calls and the distant crash of waterfalls 500 ...

Why to visit: "Most people think of Costa Rica when they think of cloud forest, but Ecuador also ... wind and bird calls and the distant crash of waterfalls 500 feet below you.

The map below shows the location of Kumamoto and Nagasaki. The blue line represents the straight line joining these two place. The distance shown is the straight line or the air travel distance ...

Three years after the firm announced its plan to build the plant in Kumamoto, chip-related capital investment surged in the Kyushu region, leading to growing expectations for a return to being ...

A nearly 6,000-year-old forest is once again seeing daylight after ... More of the precipitation falls as rain instead of snow and it melts sooner," said Whitlock. "As the climate changes, we ...

At Koga Falls in the city of Aso, Kumamoto Prefecture, the water flowing down the falls has frozen completely again this year with the coldness of winter. One of the waterfalls is 100 meters tall.

One of such beautiful traits is the incredibly breathtaking waterfalls found especially in the Volta Region. The Volta Region, whose most popular waterfall is the Wli Waterfall, has 16 more ...