KUMAMOTO With the grandeur of Mount Aso in the background, around 20 cranes were erecting what will be a fortress-like building on a 21-hectare site in Kikuyo town, Kumamoto Prefecture.
A hole-in-the-wall Italian restaurant now resides in a home in Onojo, Fukuoka Prefecture, where an American family stationed at a nearby former U.S. military base once lived.