Off the coast of Japan, thousands of feet below the surface ... robot were exploring the Higashi-Ensei vent field near the Tokara Islands when they reached a depth of more than 3,000 feet ...

A magnitude 2.9 earthquake struck in waters around the Tokara island chain in southern Kagoshima Prefecture in the early afternoon of Dec. 4. A seismic intensity of 1 on the Japanese scale of 7 ...

The center’s nickname derives from the Izu thrush, or “akakokko” in Japanese, a member of the thrush family that only breeds on the Izu and Tokara island chains. The latter is located in ...