A series of earthquakes near Japan’s remote Tokara Islands over the past two weeks, along with a major eruption from a ...

Japan is facing seismic unrest. Mount Shinmoedake erupted, spewing ash. This followed a 5.5-magnitude earthquake near the ...

The Shinmoedake volcano, located on the border of Kagoshima and Miyazaki prefectures, continued to erupt on Thursday, July 3, ...

It may be because effective measures cannot be taken in the face of a mountain of challenges. Trust in the established political parties has been shaken. At the same time, the power of emerging ...

Biodiversity continued to decrease in most of the areas we studied, irrespective of population increase or decrease. Only ...

Mt. Shinmoe, an erupting volcano in southwestern Japan, was observed blowing an ash plume 5,000 meters above its crater, th ...

The first instalment of this four-part series looks at some of the early figures who paved the way for marathon runners in ...

Campaigning officially started on July 3 for an Upper House election that could further upend the power structure in Japanese ...

Campaigning for Japan’s upper house election started Thursday, with unpopular Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba fighting to ...

MHI launched Tatsuta, the 11th Mogami-class frigate on order for the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF), in a ceremony ...

Shinmoedake, in the Kirishima mountain range straddling Miyazaki and Kagoshima prefectures, erupted more intensely at 11:43 a ...