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

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

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

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 ...

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

Following a series of ominous rumblings, the volcanic island of Miyakejima in the Izu island chain spat a huge plume of smoke ...

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

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

Residents of the Tokara Islands in the village of Toshima, Kagoshima Prefecture, began evacuating Friday morning following a powerful magnitude 5.5 earthquake that struck a day earlier, which ...

Akuseki Island, one of the Tokara Islands, is seen in this photo taken from a Mainichi Shimbun helicopter. The island is a part of the village of Toshima, Kagoshima Prefecture. (Mainichi/Takeshi ...

More than 900 quakes in two weeks have rattled Japan’s Tokara Islands, sparking fears of stronger seismic activity among residents.