Those living on the remote islands anxious and fearful of what might happen, and the national weather service has no idea when the quakes will end.

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

There are currently nine evacuees from the Tokara Islands off Kagoshima Prefecture, including Akuseki Island, according to ...

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

A swarm of tremors is rocking a remote Japanese island chain. Experts say more could be coming. Here's what's behind the ...

School principal Yoshiro Tobo is one of the few people left on his remote Japanese island, where the earth is constantly shaking from earthquakes, having chosen to stay behind while his family fled to ...

In Japan, swarms of earthquakes are fueling a dip in tourism and a viral panic over predictions of the next 'big one' ...

The Tokara Islands are the150km chain of 12 small islands and out of the total seven are inhabited. Only 700 people live on the remote islands. The islands are not well connected to the hospitals ...

Japanese authorities have evacuated a small island village after the region was jolted by over 1,000 earthquakes in less than ...

A magnitude 5.3 earthquake jolted Japan's northern Hokkaido region, with no risk of a tsunami confirmed by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA).

The late Toshimi Shimono (1929-2022), a renowned Japanese folklorist and leading authority on the folk traditions of southern Japan, once described the Tokara island chain in Kagoshima Prefecture ...

The U.S. Geological Survey registered a 5.6-magnitude quake on Wednesday afternoon in the Tokara Islands, a string of 12 islands between Japan’s main island and Okinawa.