Before arriving in Japan, I had never considered hiking up a mountain in full winter gear just to race back down it on a thin piece of wood. My idea of a ski trip included semi-early mornings and a ...

A volcano on Japan’s major western island of Kyushu had multiple eruptions on Sunday, Nov. 16, sending a plume of smoke and ash almost three miles into the air, causing tens of flight cancellations ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Livestream video from Japan’s Sakurajima volcano showed an impressive plume of ash rising from its crater on April 11. The ...

The eruption from the Minamidake crater sent ash plumes soaring up to 3,400 meters into the sky, blanketing large parts of Kagoshima Prefecture in volcanic ash.

Sakurajima volcano on Japan’s Osumi peninsula averages around 200 eruptions per year, but there is a sizable population base ...

The Japanese government has released an AI-generated video warning Tokyo residents of the potential impact if Mount Fuji were to erupt. The haunting video depicts volcanic ash spreading across the ...

Japan’s most active volcano erupted on Saturday afternoon, sending an ash plume 3.4km into the sky, grounding flights and blanketing the surrounding city of Kagoshima in debris. It was Sakurajima’s ...

OTAKI, Japan -- A dozen more bodies were found Wednesday near the ash-covered summit of a Japanese volcano as searches resumed amid concern of toxic gasses and another eruption. The death toll from ...

An undersea volcano erupted off Japan three weeks ago, providing a rare view of the birth of a tiny new island, but experts say it may not last very long. Mount Shinmoedake in southern Japan erupted ...

Toxic gases and ash from still-erupting Mount Ontake forced Japanese rescue workers to call off the search for more victims Monday as dozens of relatives awaited news of their family members. Rescuers ...