Japan's Environment Ministry on Tuesday announced that non-native mongooses have been eradicated from Amami-Oshima Island in the country's southwestern prefecture of Kagoshima. Amami-Oshima is ...

As of 9 p.m., the storm was traveling approximately 80 kilometers east-northeast of Amami, Kagoshima Prefecture ... northeastward along the Japanese archipelago, slightly increasing its speed.

Chef Rika visits the southwest archipelago of Japan ... and an area of 700 square kilometers, much of Amami is covered in forest.