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

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

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

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

The Tokara Islands in southern Japan have experienced a wave of more than 1,200 earthquakes since late June, with some reports counting up to 1,600 tremors. The unusual seismic swarm has triggered ...

TOKYO -- A record 740 earthquakes have been recorded off the coast of the Tokara island chain in southwest Japan's Kagoshima Prefecture in the last 10 days, the weather agency announced July 1.

A quake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.4 rattled islands in south-western Japan on July 5, the latest in a series of tremblers that have prompted some residents to evacuate.

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.

As of the morning of June 26, 474 such earthquakes had been observed around the Tokara island chain. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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

Japanese authorities urged the 89 residents of a small southern island to evacuate after a strong earthquake on Thursday, the latest of more than 1,00.

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