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More than 800 tremors have shaken the southwestern Tokara Islands over the past 11 days, including a 5.6-magnitude quake on Wednesday.
Upward of 600 people have made their home in Japan's Tokara Islands, a 12-island archipelago with seven inhabited islands ...
Researchers said they named the new species after the Nansei Islands near the Okinawa Trough where it was first discovered ...
Synodus autumnus, or the autumn lizardfish (Iroha-eso in Japanese), derives its name from its warm-toned coloration, ...
Chef Yoshinori Ishii, who earned two Michelin stars at Umu in London, is now back in Japan to find his culinary roots. His ...
More than 900 earthquakes have shaken a remote and sparsely populated island chain in southern Japan over two weeks, keeping ...
As Rhode Islanders get ready for Fourth of July weekend, the same questions are on everyone's mind – where and when to catch ...
China has stepped up construction of drilling rigs and other platforms off its east coast to tap into maritime resources such as natural gas and fish, raising the ire of Japan and South Korea and ...
Earthquakes can’t be predicted. But a manga artist’s dream of a July 5 'megaquake' has spooked some residents and travelers.
A Japanese manga printed in the 1990s appears to have made another scarily accurate prediction. Just two days before the ...
Japan said China is building a 20th structure in a disputed, energy-rich area and called for a return to negotiations.
Interest in the unsolved cases has surged since the televised appearance of a witness who claimed to know where bodies had ...