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n. - The southernmost of the four main islands of Japan.

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  • The murky, fat-slicked pork broth from Kyushu is also known as tonkotsu (pork bone) soup.
  • I'm now in Kyushu, which is another part of Japan to the place I was in before, but sadly I have no internet access at home yet.
  • I'm easy to spot: white, tall, bald, the only jaywalker in Kyushu), struggling to get a better grip on the slippery eel that is this language.
  • On August 5, 325 Army planes attacked Tarumizu in southern Kyushu, which intelligence had fingered as a source of rocket-powered “Baka bombs,” fast suicide planes.
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