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

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

Some of the residents of the Tokara Islands in Kagoshima Prefecture who had evacuated to Kagoshima City and other locations ...

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, ...

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

It's eerie," Chizuko Arikawa from Akusekijima island told The Asahi Shimbun. "Everyone's exhausted. We just want it to stop," said the 54-year-old, who lives by the sea and runs a cattle farm with ...

A total of 46 evacuees left Akusekijima and Kodakarajima aboard a ferry Sunday morning after a series of strong earthquakes rocked the Tokara chain islands in the village of Toshima, Kagoshima ...

Authorities have evacuated dozens of people from remote islands in southern Japan that have been shaken by over 1,700 tremors ...

Additionally, Akusekijima was rocked by two more tremors overnight. The first, at 12:08 am, measured 4, followed by a slightly stronger quake at 12:12 am, which registered a lower 5 on the intensity ...

An earthquake occurred in the seas near the Tokara Islands at 12:02 p.m. on Monday, and a 4 on the Japanese seismic intensity of 7 was recorded at Akusekijima Island.