KAGOSHIMA--Sixteen evacuated residents of Akusekijima island boarded a ferry here on the evening of July 16 to return home ...

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

Monday marks one month since seismic activity intensified in the sea around the Tokara island chain in southwestern Japan, ...

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

A powerful earthquake, registering an initial magnitude of 5.5, hit Akusekijima, part of Toshima village in Japan's Kagoshima Prefecture, on Thursday ...

Following a series of earthquakes off the Tokara Islands in Kagoshima Prefecture, a ferry carrying five evacuees left Akusekijima Island, part of that island chain, yesterday. The five evacuees, ...

More than 900 earthquakes have shaken a remote and sparsely populated island chain in southern Japan over two weeks, keeping ...

Authorities have evacuated dozens of people from remote islands in southern Japan that have been shaken by over 1,700 tremors ...

A total of 46 evacuees left Akusekijima and Kodakarajima aboard a ferry Sunday morning after a series of strong earthquakes ...

On Friday, 13 residents evacuated the village of Toshima on Akusekijima and arrived at Kagoshima Port by ship, local media reported.