Residents of the Tokara Islands in the village of Toshima, Kagoshima Prefecture, began evacuating Friday morning following a ...

More people evacuated from small islands in southwestern Japan on Sunday as quakes continued to rattle the area, heading to ...

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

Japan faces strong earthquakes, especially near Kyushu. The government has urged the public to disregard unscientific ...

A powerful earthquake, registering a preliminary magnitude of 5.4, struck off Japan’s Tokara island chain in Kagoshima Prefecture on Sunday. This tre ...

Upward of 600 people have made their home in Japan's Tokara Islands, a 12-island archipelago with seven inhabited islands ...

Japanese authorities urged the 89 residents of a small southern island to evacuate after a strong earthquake on Thursday, the ...

A magnitude 5.5 earthquake struck near the Tokara Islands in Kagoshima Prefecture at 4:13 p.m. Thursday, according to the ...

TOKYO, July 6 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.4 struck off the Tokara island chain in Japan's southwestern prefecture of Kagoshima on Sunday, as more people evacuated from ...

An evacuation has begun as tremors intensify in and around Japan's southern islands of Toshima village, Kagoshima Prefecture.

More than 800 tremors have shaken the southwestern Tokara Islands over the past 11 days, including a 5.6-magnitude quake on Wednesday.

The Tokara Islands are the150km chain of 12 small islands and out of the total seven are inhabited. Only 700 people live on the remote islands.