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 ...

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

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.