Japan has paid a high diplomatic price for its territorial disputes with China and South Korea over uninhabited islets in the East China Sea and the Sea of Japan. But Japan may get a freebie in the ...

A dramatic undersea eruption off Japan's Iwoto island rewrote the map of the Pacific, birthing a brand-new volcanic islet in late 2023 more than 1,000 kilometres south of Tokyo. The explosive event, ...

An undersea volcano erupted off Japan three weeks ago, providing a rare view of the birth of a tiny new island, but experts say it may not last very long.

Volcanic eruptions are perhaps nature's most terrifying display of power. Catastrophic eruptions of volcanoes like Mount Vesuvius, Krakatoa, and Mount St. Helens have gone down as some of the most ...