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More than 250,000 households are affected by power outages and dozens of people are reportedly injured as Typhoon Shanshan makes landfall over Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.
2024-08-29

A United States Air Force V-22 Osprey crashes off the coast of Japan's Kagoshima Prefecture with six crew members onboard. A search and rescue operation has been launched, according to the Japan Coast Guard.
2023-11-29

The Sakurajima volcano in Kyushu, Japan, erupts. Around 120 residents in two nearby towns are ordered to evacuate even though minimal damages are reported.
2022-07-24

Japan reports an outbreak of the H5N8 bird flu strain at a farm with about 11,000 egg-laying chickens in Izumi, Kagoshima Prefecture.
2021-11-16

Japan's Sakurajima volcano erupts prompting the Japan Meteorological Agency to issue a warning not to approach it. The volcano, located in the southern Kagoshima Prefecture, is situated 50km from the Sendai Nuclear Power Plant.
2016-02-5

Heavy snowfall in western and central Japan leaves at least two people dead and over a hundred injured. Snowfall was also recorded for the first time in 155 years on Amami Ōshima, a subtropical island in Japan's southern Kagoshima Prefecture.
2016-01-24

Japan's Sendai Nuclear Power Plant in Satsumasendai in Kagoshima Prefecture on Kyushu restarts reactor no. 1. This is the first of 50-plus shut-down nuclear reactors to go back online since the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. The problems discovered in the reactor model after the disaster have not been fixed.
2015-08-11

A volcano erupts on the Japanese island of Kuchinoerabu-jima prompting the evacuation of all residents and the diversion of all flights.
2015-05-29

The Shinmoedake volcano on the Japanese island of Kyūshū erupts again with its biggest explosion since becoming active again.
2011-02-1

The Japanese government urges residents living near the Shinmoedake volcano in Kyūshū to evacuate as eruptions become worse.
2011-01-31