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Large raindrops began falling like sleet on the evening of May 29 near the Kagoshima prefectural office, creating thick, dark streaks on a white rental car parked nearby.
IBUSUKI, Japan >> A sandbar that appears at an uninhabited island during low tide is attracting attention in Ibusuki, ...
Some residents who evacuated from a quake-hit remote island chain in Japan's southwestern Kagoshima Prefecture began heading home on Wednesday.
Residents on southwestern Japan's Akuseki Island are facing difficult decisions over whether to evacuate as earthquakes continue to shake the remote i ...
TOSHIMA, Kagoshima Prefecture–A series of earthquakes that have rattled remote islands and put residents on edge here continued on July 2, with one of the strongest tremors so far rocking Kodakarajima ...
School principal Yoshiro Tobo is one of the few people left on his remote Japanese island, where the earth is constantly ...
Residents of an island in Japan's southwestern prefecture of Kagoshima have begun evacuating on Friday amid a series of earthqua ...
About a dozen people evacuated a remote island in southwestern Japan on Friday, the day after a strong earthquake with a ...
Five residents evacuated the island on July 9. Islanders who wished to evacuate, started doing so on July 4. 59 residents ...
Authorities issued evacuation orders on Thursday after the Akuseki Island in Kagoshima prefecture was struck by a 5.5 magnitude quake, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. The epicentre was ...
Authorities are warning of more earthquakes around the Tokara island chain in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan. 1,900 ...
Residents of an island in Japan''s southwestern prefecture of Kagoshima have begun evacuating on Friday amid a series of earthquakes, local media reported.