Nearly 2,200 earthquakes strong enough to be felt by humans have recently struck around a southwestern Japanese island chain.

School principal Yoshiro Tobo is one of the few people left on his remote Japanese island, where the earth is constantly ...

Upward of 600 people have made their home in Japan's Tokara Islands, a 12-island archipelago with seven inhabited islands between Japan's mainland and the island of Okinawa. Over the past couple of ...

Authorities are warning of more earthquakes around the Tokara island chain in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan. 1,900 ...

Following a series of earthquakes off the Tokara Islands in Kagoshima Prefecture, a ferry carrying five evacuees left ...

TOKYO -- A record 740 earthquakes have been recorded off the coast of the Tokara island chain in southwest Japan's Kagoshima Prefecture in the last 10 days, the weather agency announced July 1.

Japan pressed forward with the evacuation of residents living across the southwestern Tokara Island chain as a series of ...

More than 900 earthquakes have shaken a remote and sparsely populated island chain in southern Japan over two weeks, keeping residents anxious and awake all night. Seismic activity has been "very ...

There have been no reports of damage however authorities have advised residents to prepare to move to safety if needed.

Japanese authorities have evacuated a small island village after the region was jolted by over 1,000 earthquakes in less than ...

A remote island chain in southern Japan has been rattled by more than 470 earthquakes since Saturday, the national weather agency said on ...

A magnitude 5.5 earthquake struck near the Tokara Islands in Kagoshima Prefecture at 4:13 p.m. Thursday, according to the Meteorological Agency. Authorities said there was no risk of a tsunami and ...