More than 500 earthquakes have hit Kyushu Island in Japan since Thursday, killing at least 42 people and forcing major multinational companies to close factories.

There will only be a few hundred and they will not be cheap, but Japanese car giant Toyota is about to take its first small step into the unproven market for emissions-free, hydrogen-powered vehicles.

A powerful typhoon is heading toward Tokyo after lashing southern Japan, where it killed at least one US airman on Okinawa island and left two others missing.

IN MY first years of collecting I felt a yawning cultural chasm open wide when confronted with Japanese or Chinese ceramics. 

A powerful typhoon has buffeted the southern Japanese islands of Okinawa, paralysing transport and injuring at least 10 people.

Troops yesterday airlifted supplies to thousands of people cut off by landslides and torrential downpours that have killed at least 24 in south-west Japan as further heavy rain was forecast.

Officials urged more than 1,000 residents to seek safer ground today and expanded a no-access zone around a volcano that has exploded back to life in southern Japan.

Small tsunami waves caused by a powerful earthquake which hit Samoa in the Pacific Ocean reached Japan today, officials said.

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 rattled southern Japan today, the Meteorological Agency said. There were no reports of injuries or serious damage.

A powerful tropical storm churned northward in the sea between Japan and the Korean Peninsula today, leaving landslides and flooded towns in its wake.

Officials warned of heavy rains and strong winds today as a powerful typhoon approached southern Japan, forcing airline companies to cancel hundreds of flights.

A powerful magnitude-7.0 earthquake jolted southern Japan today, killing an elderly woman, injuring at least 400 people, and prompting authorities to evacuate half the residents of a tiny island near the epicentre.

A powerful magnitude-7.0 earthquake struck off the coast of southern Japan on today, injuring at least 155 people, damaging buildings and leaving residents shaken as aftershocks continued. Authorities issued a tsunami warning that was later cancelled.

Sergio Garcia extended his lead to three shots on the third day of the Dunlop Phoenix event on Kyushu Island.

The Europeans made their move on the second day of the Dunlop Phoenix tournament on Kyushu Island with Spaniard Sergio Garcia taking the outright lead ahead of Denmark’s Thomas Bjorn.

Spain’s Sergio Garcia earned a share of the lead at the Dunlop Phoenix tournament on Kyushu Island with a first-round 66.

Four crew members were killed when a freighter broke apart after running aground off the southwest coast of Japan, officials said today.