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 ...

Japan’s volcano research is viewed as 30 years in the past, as well as poorly funded and staffed. Toshitsugu Fujii, an expert on magmantology and professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo ...

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.

There are two types of bathhouses in Tokyo and throughout Japan: onsen and sento ... onsen are filled with natural volcanic spring water, known for its rich and healing mineral content, while ...

This exchange plan aims to interact between researchers from the University of Tokyo and Yamagata University who are conducting cutting-edge research mainly on Japanese volcanoes, and Nanyang ...