A record 740 earthquakes have been recorded off the coast of the Tokara island chain in southwest Japan's Kagoshima ...

Wreckage believed to belong to the U.S. military V-22 Osprey that crashed into the sea is collected at Anbo port at Yakushima Island, Kagoshima prefecture, western Japan, Nov. 30, 2023.

Debris believed to be from a U.S. Air Force Osprey aircraft that crashed into the sea off Japan's Yakushima Island is seen in this handout photo provided by Japan's coast guard, Nov. 29, 2023.

A Japan’s coast guard vessel conducts a search and rescue operation around the site where a US military Osprey aircraft was believed to crash in the sea off Yakushima Island on Nov. 29, 2023.

Wreckage and remains were discovered from the CV-22 Osprey that crashed last week off the shore of Yakushima Island, Japan, the U.S. Air Force said Monday.. The remains of five crew members were ...

Yakushima usually isn’t on the itinerary for first-time visitors to Japan.About as far as it gets from the country's tourist-congested golden triangle (that would be Tokyo, Kyoto, and Osaka ...

So how does one go about bathing in a forest? It’s not streaking down a trail or counting steps on a Fitbit. For Japanese ...

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The following is the June 6, 2024, U.S. Air Force Aircraft Accident Investigation Board report on the Nov. 29, 2023 crash of an Air Force CV-22B off the coast of Yakushima Island, Japan. From the ...

Another local saying: “In Yakushima it rains 35 days a month”, is equally revealing, although understandably, not as popular on tourist brochures.

In 2015, on Japan’s forested island of Yakushima, a male macaque jumped up onto the back of a female sika deer and started trying to mate with it. At the time, researchers believed that the male ...