There are currently nine evacuees from the Tokara Islands off Kagoshima Prefecture, including Akuseki Island, according to ...

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

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

Monday marks one month since seismic activity intensified in the sea around the Tokara island chain in southwestern Japan, ...

More than 900 earthquakes have shaken a remote and sparsely populated island chain in southern Japan over two weeks, keeping ...

Those living on the remote islands anxious and fearful of what might happen, and the national weather service has no idea ...

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

No tsunami have been observed, and there have been no reports of damage. The waters surrounding the Tokara Islands -- a group of 12 islets located between Yakushima and Amami Oshima islands -- have ...

The Tokara Islands in southern Japan have experienced a wave of more than 1,200 earthquakes since late June, with some ...

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

There have been no reports of damage however authorities have advised residents to prepare to move to safety if needed.

More than 800 tremors have shaken the southwestern Tokara Islands over the past 11 days, including a 5.6-magnitude quake on Wednesday. By Francesca Regalado A sparsely populated string of islands ...