Kumamoto Castle was built in 1607 by Katō Kiyomasa, lord of the Kumamoto domain, and later taken over by the Hosokawa clan. It has been renovated and reconstructed many times over the centuries since ...

Kumamoto Castle was originally built in 1607 by Katō Kiyomasa (1562–1611), a warlord who acquired a reputation for his castle construction efforts. Considered one of the three great Japanese castles, ...

KUMAMOTO -- Ten years have passed since the April 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake, the first in Japan's observation history to record the maximum seismic int･･･ ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - The deadly earthquakes that struck the southern Japanese island of Kyushu on Thursday and Saturday breached the walls of Kumamoto Castle which had previously withstood bombardment ...

Workers install devices that can absorb earthquake vibrations on the top floor of Kumamoto Castle's taller tower, in Kumamoto's Chuo Ward, on June 26, 2018. (Mainichi) KUMAMOTO -- The tower of ...

In February 1877, Takamori Saigo (1828-1877), the leader of the Satsuma Rebellion, launched an all-out assault on Kumamoto Castle that was being defended by the Imperial Japanese Army. With his ...

One of the most stunning sights you can witness in Japan is the unique cloud formation known as unkai or ‘sea of clouds’. This natural phenomenon usually appears in Japan's mountainous regions from ...

A panel exhibition opened Saturday in front of Kumamoto Castle to mark 10 years since a pair of major earthquakes hit the southwestern Japanese prefecture of Kumamoto, highlighting the efforts of ...

KUMAMOTO--The interior of Kumamoto Castle's main tower reopened to the public on June 28 following the completion of repairs from the 2016 earthquakes here that knocked off roof tiles and collapsed ...

Most visitors are awed by Kumamoto Castle's imposing walls; myself, I am more preoccupied with the stairs. According to the map board just inside the Hazekata Gate, there are many of them, tracing a ...

"Warning: No trespassing due to earthquake damage," bears a sign at Kumamoto Castle, a popular tourist destination in the prefecture, while castle officials make rounds to prevent trespassers. Strong ...