Video taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a large sinkhole at an intersection in Yashio in Saitama Prefecture, near Tokyo, on Feb. 4, 2025, a week after it opened up, swallowing a truck. Search ...

Terumi Tanaka, co-chair of 2024 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nihon Hidankyo, speaks at a reception celebrating the win in Tokyo on Feb. 4, 2025.

Dating key tectonic events in Japan's geological history has long been often challenging due to poor microfossil preservation ...

TOKYO — A strong earthquake ... stranding passengers. Volcanic smoke rises from the crater on Mount Shinmoedake in the Kirishimna range on Japan’s southernmost main island of Kyushu Tuesday ...

Escape the crowds and visit 3 of Japan’s lesser-known treasures: Taketomi Island’s beaches, Yamaguchi’s history and Nasu’s ...

Japan is a land of volcanoes, many of them very active ... It takes about an hour and a half to get there from Tokyo by the Tohoku Shinkansen bullet train.