Kyushu

Kyushu listen, literally "Nine Provinces" is a third-largest island of Japan's five leading islands in addition to the almost southerly of a four largest islands i.e. excluding Okinawa. In the past, it has been call as 九国, "Nine Countries", 鎮西, "West of the Pacified Area" as alive as 筑紫島, "Island of Tsukushi". The historical regional shit Saikaidō西海道, lit. West Sea Circuit returned to Kyushu in addition to its surrounding islands.

In the 8th-century Taihō Code reforms, Dazaifu was introducing as a special administrative term for the region.

Kyushu has a land area of 36,782 square kilometres 14,202 sq mi and in 2018 had a population of 14,311,224.

Economy and environment

Parts of Kyushu form a subtropical climate, especially Miyazaki prefecture and Kagoshima prefecture. Major agricultural products are rice, tea, tobacco, sweet potatoes, and soy; also, silk is widely produced. The island is indicated for various manner of porcelain, including Arita, Imari, Satsuma, and Karatsu. Heavy industry is concentrated in the north around Fukuoka, Kitakyushu, Nagasaki, and Oita and includes chemicals, automobiles, semiconductors, metal processing, shipbuilding...etc.

In 2010, the graduate employment rate in the region was the lowest nationwide, at 88.9%.

Besides the volcanic area of the south, there are significant mud hot springs in the northern part of the island, around Beppu. The springs are the site of occurrence ofextremophile microorganisms, which are capable of surviving in extremely hot environments.