A powerful earthquake with a maximum intensity of just under 6 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale of 7 struck in the Hyuganada Sea off Miyazaki Prefecture around 4:43 p.m. on Aug. 8 ...

Mt. Shinmoe on the southwestern Japanese island of Kyushu erupted Sunday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.

TOKYO: Shinmoedake, a volcano in the mountain range on the border of Japan s Kagoshima and Miyazaki prefectures, erupted on ...

TOKYO and LONDON -- A tsunami advisory has now been lifted after an earlier warning in the wake of a strong earthquake Monday off the coast of Japan’s Miyazaki Prefecture, officials said. The U ...

Extremely hot weather hit wide areas in Japan from the Kyushu to Hokuriku regions on Monday. Weather officials say people ...

Japanese officials are dismissing alarm over the prediction of a July “catastrophe” in a comic book, “The Future I Saw,” ...

Japan’s Wakayama prefectural authorities would be open to assessing whether to join a potential new round of local-government ...

Staff members of Kushima Aoi Farm Co. in Kushima, Miyazaki Prefecture, package sweet potatoes for exports on Sept. 24. (Daisuke Hatano) ...

In the town of Misato, Miyazaki Prefecture, the harvesting of a local specialty, "Misato chestnuts," has begun. The harvested chestnuts are carried by a conveyer belt, sorted into five sizes by ...

W ater lilies, often likened to "water fairies," are now at their best at the Nobeoka botanical garden in the city of Nobeoka, Miyazaki Prefecture. In the garden's pond, cute white flowers peek ...