A new island appears to have formed after an eruption off Iwoto, part of the Ogasawara chain of islands in the Pacific O...

A mass of floating object believed to be pumice stones is found around an island south of Tokyo.

A volcano on an island south of Tokyo erupts.

Mt. Fuji, Japan's tallest mountain, is capped with snow for the first time this season.

The Meteorological Research Institute and others publish a research article that shows global warming increases the occu...

Desperate rescue efforts continue 72 hours after the dealy earthquake in Morocco.

Rarely seen fairy pittas are on display at a zoo in Kochi, western Japan.

Climber Miura Yuichiro, aged 90, reaches the summit of Mt. Fuji, Japan's tallest mountain, on a wheelchair.

The Japan Meteorological Agency releases its three-month weather forecast, saying that temperatures are expected to rema...

At Tateyama Port west of Tokyo, some reports of dolphin sightings are made by fisherman from the shore.