An earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 4.4 struck off the coast of the Tokara Islands at about 12:42 p.m. on Sunday. Akusekijima Island, part of Kagoshima Prefecture’s Toshima Village, ...

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

Another nurse is scheduled to join a healthcare team on a remote southwestern Japanese island that has been rattled by a ...

A second group of evacuees from a quake-hit remote island chain in Japan's Kagoshima Prefecture has arrived in the prefectural capital in the southwestern region of Kyushu.

On July 9 last year, Yosuke Tatsuno, 45, allegedly paid 10,000 yen to a 17-year-old high school student at a different school ...