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The death toll from floods in Kyushu, Japan, rises to 49 people. The country is bracing for more heavy rain.
2020-07-6

Heavy rains and mudslides occur in Kumamoto Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan. At least 14 residents of a nursing home in Kuma are feared dead after they are found "in cardio-respiratory arrest", according to prefecture Governor Ikuo Kabashima. Another 10 people are missing and dozens stranded on rooftops.
2020-07-4

Mount Kirishima in Kyushu, Japan, erupts. It is the first time it has erupted since 1768.
2018-04-19

The death toll from recent torrential rain and flooding in Kyushu in southern Japan rises to 25.
2017-07-11

Typhoon Malakas makes landfall on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu dumping heavy rain and causing flight cancellations.
2016-09-20

Kyushu island's Mount Aso, Japan's largest active volcano, erupts. Numerous flights serving Kumamoto Airport are canceled.
2015-09-14

Japan's Sendai Nuclear Power Plant in Satsumasendai in Kagoshima Prefecture on Kyushu restarts reactor no. 1. This is the first of 50-plus shut-down nuclear reactors to go back online since the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. The problems discovered in the reactor model after the disaster have not been fixed.
2015-08-11

Typhoon Noul arrives at the southern Japanese islands at Amami Oshima before moving through Kyushu and then Honshu.
2015-05-12

About a quarter of a million people are asked to leave the southern Japanese island of Kyushu after flooding caused by days of heavy rain leaves 20 people dead.
2012-07-14

The Shinmoedake volcano on the Japanese island of Kyūshū erupts again with its biggest explosion since becoming active again.
2011-02-1