Kyushu

Kyu·shu  (k-sh, ky-)

The southernmost of the major islands of Japan, in the southwest on the East China Sea and the Pacific Ocean.

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Kyushu - the southernmost of the four main islands of Japan; contains coal fields Japan, Japanese Archipelago, Japanese Islands - a string of more than 3,000 islands to the east of Asia extending 1,300 miles between the Sea of Japan and the western Pacific Ocean Kitakyushu - a Japanese city on northern Kyushu Fukuoka - a city in southern Japan on Kyushu Nagasaki - a city in southern Japan on Kyushu; a leading port and shipbuilding center; on August 9, 1945 Nagasaki became the second populated area to receive an atomic bomb Minamata Bay - a bay on the west coast of Kyushu; in the 1950s industrial wastes caused mercury poisoning among the Japanese people who ate fish from Minamata Bay