Japan is packed with spectacular mountains, islands, and trails, but this magnificent national park is the country's most ...

Kagoshima City woke under a fresh coat of gray on Saturday, May 17, 2026. Sometime before dawn, Sakurajima, the stratovolcano ...

A volcano on Japan’s major western island of Kyushu erupted multiple times on Sunday, sending a plume of smoke and ash as ...

Japan is stepping up its volcano research that trails far behind its advanced studies on earthquakes despite being home to ...

Japan’s most active volcano erupted on Saturday afternoon, sending an ash plume 3.4km into the sky, grounding flights and blanketing the surrounding city of Kagoshima in debris. It was Sakurajima’s ...

A volcano on Japan’s major western island of Kyushu had multiple eruptions on Sunday, Nov. 16, sending a plume of smoke and ash almost three miles into the air, causing tens of flight cancellations ...

TOKYO (AP) — A volcano erupted on a small island in southern Japan on Friday, spewing black clouds of ash and rock towering into the sky and prompting authorities to tell residents to evacuate the ...

An undersea volcano erupted off Japan three weeks ago, providing a rare view of the birth of a tiny new island, but experts say it may not last very long. Mount Shinmoedake in southern Japan erupted ...

Toxic gases and ash from still-erupting Mount Ontake forced Japanese rescue workers to call off the search for more victims Monday as dozens of relatives awaited news of their family members. Rescuers ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan raised the warning level on another volcano on Tuesday, exactly a week after an dramatic eruption at another peak killed one man, injured nearly a dozen others and stranded ...