Japan, Japanese Archipelago, Japanese Islands - a string of more than 3,000 islands 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

island - a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water

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 the Bay