The government has appointed current ASDF head, Gen. Hiroaki Uchikura, as the next chief of staff of the Defense Ministry's ...

As Japan prepares for the July 20 House of Councillors election, the presence of political YouTubers is growing. This trend ...

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

Japan’s Tokara Islands in Kagoshima Prefecture have been rattled by more than 2,000 earthquakes since June 21, marking the ...

The late Toshimi Shimono (1929-2022), a renowned Japanese folklorist and leading authority on the folk traditions of southern ...

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

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

Two small islands in the southwestern part of Japan have moved apart by nearly 10 centimetres over the course of three days ...

Thursday marks one week since an earthquake measuring lower 6 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale struck Akusekijima ...

The three countries have been stepping up maritime cooperation amid Beijing’s aggressive maritime behaviour. Read more at ...

Five residents evacuated the island on July 9. Islanders who wished to evacuate, started doing so on July 4. 59 residents ...

The 50th and final H2A liquid-fuel rocket was launched from Tanegashima Space Center in southwestern Japan at 1:33 a.m. on ...