School principal Yoshiro Tobo is one of the few people left on his remote Japanese island, where the earth is constantly ...

Nearly 2,200 earthquakes strong enough to be felt by humans have recently struck around a southwestern Japanese island chain.

KAGOSHIMA--Sixteen evacuated residents of Akusekijima island boarded a ferry here on the evening of July 16 to return home ...

The late Toshimi Shimono (1929-2022), a renowned Japanese folklorist and leading authority on the folk traditions of southern ...

Following a series of earthquakes off the Tokara Islands in Kagoshima Prefecture, a ferry carrying five evacuees left ...

"You can hear a strange roar from the ocean before the quakes hit, especially at night. It's eerie," Chizuko Arikawa from Akusekijima island told The Asahi Shimbun. "Everyone's exhausted. We just want ...

Residents of a remote island chain in southwestern Japan have been evacuating as earthquakes continue, and a second group has now left.

S/ Isowaki Takuma, KYT Reporter / A ferry carrying residents is now in view.A second batch of 46 people evacuating from ...

Japanese authorities urged the 89 residents of a small southern island to evacuate after a strong earthquake on Thursday, the latest of more than 1,000 recent jolts to hit the area.

Japan pressed forward with the evacuation of residents living across the southwestern Tokara Island chain as a series of ...

An earthquake shook southwestern Japan on Saturday, registering a magnitude of 5.4. As the disaster hit the region, it sparked a wave of reactions online, with many pointing to a manga comic that had ...

The Chinese Embassy in Japan on Friday issued a notice to remind Chinese citizens in the country to be vigilant against natural disasters as ...