A volcano on Sakurajima in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, erupted early Sunday morning, sending a plume of ash and smoke up to 4,400 meters into the atmosphere, the weather agency said. The ...

Amazing footage taken by Japan's Coast Guard shows an eruption near Iwo Jima after an eruption just two months prior to when ...

TOKYO (AP) — 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. The unnamed undersea volcano, ...

Japanese researchers have launched a large-scale project to excavate houses buried by ash during an eruption of Mount Fuji ...

Japan's Sakurajima volcano has erupted in spectacular fashion, blasting a towering 4,400-metre ash plume into the sky and triggering ashfall alerts across Kagoshima, Kumamoto and Miyazaki. The ...

TOKYO (AP) — A popular hiking site in central Japan turned into a death trap Saturday when a volcano erupted. At least 31 people are believed to have been killed at Mount Ontake, though authorities ...

A JUMP IN SEISMIC ACTIVITY HAS FORCED JAPAN TO HALT ITS RECOVERY EFFORTS AT MOUNT ONTAKE FOLLOWING SATURDAY’S ERUPTION THAT KILLED DOZENS OF CLIMBERS – JAPAN’S SELF DEFENSE FORCE HAD PLANNED TO BRING ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TOKYO (AP) — An undersea volcano erupted off ...