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

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

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

The Japanese government on July 1 approved significant upgrades to the plan to safeguard the public in the event of a major ...

TOSHIMA, Kagoshima Prefecture--More residents have decided to flee Akusekijima island after yet another strong earthquake.

"You can hear a strange roar from the ocean before the quakes hit, especially at night. It's eerie," Chizuko Arikawa from ...

Another nurse is scheduled to join a healthcare team on a remote southwestern Japanese island that has been rattled by a ...

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

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

An island chain in southwest Japan was shaken by an earthquake on Thursday after over 1,000 tremors throughout two weeks.

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.4 struck off the Tokara island chain in Japan's southwestern prefecture of ...

More than 800 tremors have shaken the southwestern Tokara Islands over the past 11 days, including a 5.6-magnitude quake on Wednesday.