Japan is packed with spectacular mountains, islands, and trails, but this magnificent national park is the country's most ...

A volcano on Japan’s major western island of Kyushu erupted multiple times on Sunday, sending a plume of smoke and ash as ...

Kagoshima City woke under a fresh coat of gray on Saturday, May 17, 2026. Sometime before dawn, Sakurajima, the stratovolcano ...

Japan is stepping up its volcano research that trails far behind its advanced studies on earthquakes despite being home to ...

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 ...

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 ...

TOKYO (AP) — A volcano erupted on a small island in southern Japan on Friday, spewing black clouds of ash and rock towering into the sky and prompting authorities to tell residents to evacuate the ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A snowboarder is going viral after documenting the dangers of exploring Japan’s backcountry alone while riding across active ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan raised the warning level on another volcano on Tuesday, exactly a week after an dramatic eruption at another peak killed one man, injured nearly a dozen others and stranded ...