The Japan Meteorological Agency is considering introducing artificial intelligence into weather forecasting to improve ...

For the first time in 62 years, a region other than Okinawa Prefecture or the Amami islands in far southern Japan is in the ...

Japan’s Sakurajima volcano erupted on May 15, 2025, releasing toxic gases and ash that pose serious health risks, including ...

Sakurajima volcano in Japan erupted on May 15, 2025, sending a 3,000-meter ash plume into the air, with authorities closely ...

This is the first time since statistics began in 1951 that southern Kyushu has entered the rainy season earlier than any ...

The Kyushu and Shikoku regions are experiencing intermittent rains due to moist air flowing toward a weather front around the East China Sea. Southern Kyushu is likely to see clouds and rain for about ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency has a unique seismic scale called shindo that measures the degree of shaking in the event of an earthquake. This set of numbers — ranging from 0 to 7 — is ...

data from the Japan Meteorological Agency shows. The Pacific Ocean off the coast of Hokkaido was particularly warm, which experts attributed to an abnormal flow of the Kuroshio Current.

Japanese weather officials are forecasting extremely heavy rain with thunder in western and eastern parts of the country ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency said the quake registered magnitude 7.1 and was centred in waters off the eastern coast of Japan's southern main island of Kyushu at a depth of about 30km (18.6 miles).

Japan's weather agency said Friday the rainy season appears to have begun in the southern Kyushu region, marking the first ...