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

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

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

More than 2,000 earthquakes that can be felt by humans have recently struck around a southwestern Japanese island chain.

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

Following a series of earthquakes off the Tokara Islands in Kagoshima Prefecture, a ferry carrying five evacuees left Akusekijima Island, part of that island chain, yesterday. The five evacuees, ...

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

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

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 ...

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