Several people were reported missing after heavy rains and landslides in southern Japan flooded homes and swept people away ...

Shinmoedake volcano in southern Japan erupted again on Sunday, August 10, blanketing nearby cities and towns in ash.

While training with the F-35s is being carried out on land, the aircraft will eventually be transferred to the Japan Maritime ...

A powerful eruption occurred at Shinmoedake volcano in Japan's Kirishima mountain range around 5:23 a.m. local time on Sunday ...

Record rainfall battered Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan, on Friday, August 8, triggering floods and landslides. Evacuation advisories were issued for more than 360,000 people in the prefecture ...

Torrential rain is pounding the island of Kyushu in southern Japan, triggering floods and landslides and sending residents to ...

Home to less than 10 percent of the population, it’s an outdoor lover’s dream, with cloud-piercing peaks, lakes, dense ...

Japan has received its first F-35B STOVL fighters, restoring fixed-wing carrier aviation for the first time since World War ...

The increase in the foreign resident population had previously been concentrated in major cities, but now this trend also is becoming noticeable even in regional areas.

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s first three F-35B stealth fighter jets arrived Thursday at an air base in the south of the country, its ...

Japanese soldiers train during a joint military drill between Japan Self-Defense Forces, French Army and US Marines, at the Kirishima exercise area in Ebino, Miyazaki prefecture, Japan, on May 15, ...

MIYAZAKI, Japan (Kyodo) -- Mt. Shinmoe, an erupting volcano in southwestern Japan, was observed blowing an ash plume 5,000 meters above its crater, the Japan Meteorological Agency said Thursday.