Kyushu

Or Kiu·shu

[kee-oo-shoo, kyoo-shoo]

noun

1. an island in SW Japan. 15,750 sq. mi. (40,793 sq. km).

Kyushu

/ ˈkjuːʃuː /

noun

1. an island of SW Japan: the southernmost of Japan's four main islands, with over 300 surrounding small islands; coalfield and chemical industries. Chief cities: Fukuoka, Kitakyushu, and Nagasaki. Pop: 14 786 000 (2002 est). Area: 35 659 sq km (13 768 sq miles)

Example Sentences

It made a complete turn over the sea roughly equidistant from the eastern Chinese coast and Japan's southern island of Kyushu, landing in Shanghai shortly after 11am local time.

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He ended up on the island of Kyushu, where he stumbled upon an enzyme bath center where people of different ages and ailments had come to heal.

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Two teams of scientists at Kyushu University in Japan and Stanford University in the US have now revealed the mystery in simultaneous papers published on Thursday.

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To avoid having this happen with materials acquired from asteroids in space, scientists from Kyushu University in Japan carefully analyzed their samples acquired from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission.

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Led by Dr. Shohei Kuraoka and his team at Southern Kyushu and Okinawa Unit Center of Japan Environment and Children's Study, researchers measured 24 types of phenols in urine samples collected from pregnant women.

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