Mount Shinmoe, located in the Kirishima mountain range bordering Kagoshima and Miyazaki prefectures in southwestern Japan, ...

Shinmoedake, a volcano in the mountain range on the border of Japan's Kagoshima and Miyazaki prefectures, erupted on Sunday, ...

Mt. Shinmoe on the southwestern Japanese island of Kyushu erupted Sunday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.

The raised Level 3 alert warning from Japan’s Meteorological Agency comes with stern instructions for visitors: Entry is prohibited to the mountain area due to increased seismic activity and the ...

TOKYO, Jan. 27, 2011 — -- A Japanese volcano in the southern Kyushu region erupted Wednesday, leaving fields in nearby towns coated with ash and prompting limited voluntary evacuations overnight.

Japan's meteorological agency raised the alert level for Mt. Ontake to three on a scale of one to five. It warned people to stay away from the mountain, saying debris could fall up to 4 kilometers ...

Dramatic footage shows a volcano in Japan send smoke and ash thousands of metres into the air, forcing flights from a nearby airport to be cancelled. Shinmoedake, which featured in 1967 James Bond ...

Mount Asama is one of Japan’s most active volcanoes and its murderous 18th century eruption is a tragic page in the nation’s history. The 8,425-foot mountain killed more than 1,500 people on ...

Watch the moment Japan's most active volcano erupts spewing ash 16,000ft into the sky The eruption of Sakurajima in 1914 was so powerful and explosive that it ended up filling the narrow strait ...

Another small island formed in a similar way in the same region of Japan, near the Nishinoshima volcano, in 2013. That eruption lasted for a decade, but eruptions near Iwo Jima typically only last ...