Kagoshima, July 4 (Jiji Press)--The first group of evacuees from Akusekijima arrived at a port in Kagoshima, a city in southwestern Japan, on Friday following a series of earthquakes that have ...

Rest of World News: Japanese authorities urged the 89 residents of a small southern island to evacuate after a strong earthquake on Thursday, the latest of more than 1,00.

TOKYO - Japanese authorities urged the 89 residents of a small southern island to evacuate after a strong earthquake on July 3, the latest of more than 1,000 recent jolts to hit the area ...

Japanese authorities have evacuated a small island village after the region was jolted by over 1,000 earthquakes in less than two weeks. Authorities issued evacuation orders on Thursday after the ...

A magnitude-5.5 earthquake has struck Kagoshima Prefecture in southwestern Japan. The quake measured lower 6 on Japan's seismic intensity scale of 0 to 7.

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.1 struck off the Tokara Islands in southwestern Japan, with no tsunami alert issued, ...

More than 400 tremors registering an intensity of 1 or higher on the Japanese seismic scale of zero to 7 have been observed since Saturday in the seas around the Tokara island chain in Kagoshima ...

Okunoshima Island, once a secret poison gas production site, serves as a reminder of its dark history. Photo / The Japan News via The Washington Post During World War II, an entire island in the ...

Hachijojima is an island shaped by volcanoes, softened by forests and warmed by the ocean. Located 55 minutes by plane from Tokyo’s Haneda Airport, this subtropical island is often called the… ...

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and his family have prayed for all the war dead in one of the bloodiest battles of World War II fought on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa 80 years ago. The ...