kyushu

Noun
  1. The southernmost of the four main islands of Japan;
    Contains coal fields (synset 108941165)
    is an instance of: island - a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water
    has:
    • 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
    is a part of: 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

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