Before arriving in Japan, I had never considered hiking up a mountain in full winter gear just to race back down it on a thin piece of wood. My idea of a ski trip included semi-early mornings and a ...

TOKYO — Mount Fuji hasn’t erupted since 1707. But for Volcanic Disaster Preparedness Day, Japanese officials have released computer- and AI-generated videos showing a simulation of a potential violent ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A snowboarder is going viral after documenting the dangers of exploring Japan’s backcountry alone while riding across active ...

Japan's most active volcano erupted on Saturday afternoon, sending an ash plume 3.4km into the sky, grounding flights and blanketing the surrounding city of Kagoshima in debris. It was Sakurajima's ...

Volcanic eruptions, regardless of their magnitude, can result in catastrophic disasters. The 2014 hydrothermal eruption of Mt. Ontake, the second-highest active volcano in Japan, claimed 58 lives with ...