Some 7,300 years ago, the eruption of the Kikai supervolcano, the largest of the Holocene, left behind a vast caldera. Today, ...

Japan’s most active volcano erupted on Saturday afternoon, sending an ash plume 3.4km into the sky, grounding flights and ...

A volcano on Japan’s major western island of Kyushu erupted multiple times on Sunday, sending a plume of smoke and ash as ...

Japan’s Sakurajima volcano erupted late on 18 April, sending an ash plume up to 7,500ft into the sky over Kagoshima ...

Sakurajima, one of Japan's most active volcanoes, has erupted for the second time in four months. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Dubbed the Kikai caldera, this mostly-underwater caldera located south of Japan’s Ryuku Islands last erupted 7,300 years ago, ...

The eruption from the Minamidake crater sent ash plumes soaring up to 3,400 meters into the sky, blanketing large parts of ...

Japan’s Sakurajima volcano erupted just after noon on Saturday, April 11, sending plumes of smoke and ash high into the sky ...

The magma reservoir of the largest volcanic eruption of the Holocene is refilling. This Kobe University insight on the Kikai caldera in Japan allows us to understand giant caldera volcanoes like ...

Far beneath the ocean near Japan, scientists have discovered that the magma system linked to the most powerful eruption of the Holocene is slowly rebuilding. By using seismic imaging, researchers ...

A volcano on Sakurajima in southwestern Japan erupted again on Sunday. The Minamidake crater spewed a column of smoke and ash ...