Japan is stepping up its volcano research that trails far behind its advanced studies on earthquakes despite being home to ...

Over the past half century, Japan has been hit by many volcanic eruptions, but scientifically those were only considered to ...

Tokyo (CNN) — Large clouds of smoke billow from Japan’s most famous mountain. In no time, volcanic ash spreads to the heavily populated capital of Tokyo, fogging up the air and blanketing buildings ...

Hundreds of small earthquakes have been reported near a volcano in southeast Alaska believed to have been dormant for at least 800 years. The cause of the quakes under Mount Edgecumbe, a volcano near ...

I was 14 years old when my family and I took a trip to Japan--my first time out of the country. The highlight of those two weeks wasn't my daily ice-cold bottle of fizzy C.C. Lemon. It was our hike up ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - When Toshitsugu Fujii became head of a Japanese task force on disaster response at Mount Fuji, he was confronted with a startling oversight. Japan had no plan in place to deal with a ...