A 20-year-old man wanted on suspicion of breaking into a house in Karatsu City, Saga Prefecture, assaulting the woman who lives there and robbing her, has been arrested in Satsumasendai City, ...

Construction of an Air Self-Defense Force base on Mageshima, an island in Kagoshima Prefecture, is likely to be delayed by ...

IBUSUKI, Kagoshima -- The unique "Mendon" festival, featuring a parade of participants wearing bizarre masks who smear black ...

As a ferry with decorative taiko drums on its hull eases into the port of Iojima, a tiny island in southwestern Japan, a ...

JAPAN has issued a tsunami advisory after a magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck the country on Monday. The quake was at a depth of 23 miles and mainly hit the southwestern Kyushu region, said ...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Japan's Kagoshima Prefecture Governor Shiota Koichi led a delegation on a return visit to Taiwan’s Pingtung on Sunday.

In an innovative step to protect the environment and declining “paper supplies,” Japan launched the world’s first ...

According to the National Weather Service's National Tsunami Warning Center in Palmer, Alaska, there is no threat of a ...

Mostly sunny with a high of 59 °F (15 °C). Winds variable at 5 to 9 mph (8 to 14.5 kph). Night - Cloudy. Winds from WNW to W at 4 to 12 mph (6.4 to 19.3 kph). The overnight low will be 45 °F (7 ...

The Ehime Prefecture Ikata nuclear power plant and the Kagoshima Prefecture Sendai nuclear power plant did not report any unusual activities during the warning, its operators said. The earthquake ...

Partly cloudy with a high of 53 °F (11.7 °C). Winds from NW to WNW at 7 to 9 mph (11.3 to 14.5 kph). Night - Clear. Winds from NW to NNW at 6 to 7 mph (9.7 to 11.3 kph). The overnight low will ...