The central government has increased personnel and strengthened monitoring but is still struggling to predict eruptions among the 111 active volcanoes in Japan and alert people in the danger zones.

Eruptions from an undersea volcano continued spewing plumes of smoke and ash Nov. 3 around a new islet taking shape off the coast of distant Iwoto island in the Pacific Ocean. The volcanic ...

For Japan, a volcanic eruption, 1,200km south of Tokyo, created a new island in the Asian country. Experts detailed that the new tiny island popped up after a series of eruptions that started last ...

Volcanic rumblings are nothing new near Iwo Jima, and similar eruptions have happened under the sea in recent years. Despite Japan having 14,125 islands, many caused by an increase in volcanic ...

Sakurajima is reportedly one of Japan's most active volcanoes. In 1914, an eruption killed 58 people. Sakurajima is about 600 miles southwest of Tokyo.

Japan’s Meteorological Agency raised the eruption alert to the highest level of five and advised 51 residents in two towns facing the volcano to leave their homes. By Monday morning, 33 of them ...

It recently announced the results of its survey. "At least 21 volcanoes in Japan are at risk of erupting at craters other than those that are being closely monitored." The announcement has left ...