A district court on Tuesday rejected a request by residents to halt operation of a nuclear reactor at the Ikata power plan ...

A statue of the main character of Japan's popular anime series "Crayon Shinchan" has been unveiled in front of children in ...

TOKYO, October 8. /TASS/. Mount Aso volcano has rumbled to life in Japan, the country’s meteorological authorities said on Saturday. The volcano located in the Kumamoto Prefecture in Japan’s ...

Mount Aso in Kumamoto Prefecture erupted shortly ... warning against approaching the volcano. The public is advised to be on the alert for huge volcanic rocks and pyroclastic flows within areas ...

TOKYO, April 19. /TASS/. A new volcano eruption has been observed on Mount Aso in Japan's Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan Meteorological Agency said on Friday. This is the second eruption on Mount Aso ...

Travel through one of the largest calderas in the world at Mt. Aso in Kumamoto Pref. The caldera has fertile ground to sustain crops and livestock.

Aso in southwestern Japan is insufficient. Shikoku Electric said its evaluation is based on the government's projection of the largest possible earthquake and that a massive volcanic eruption is ...

The final two rides of this chilly winter trip takes us east from Kumamoto, through the massive Aso Volcano crater, ...

Japan is stepping up its volcano research that trails far behind its advanced studies on earthquakes despite being home to 111 active volcanoes, about 10 percent of the global total.