The Kuril Islands are a volcanic archipelago where earthquakes and tidal waves are common. The islands are currently disputed territory between Russia and Japan.

Zavaritskii volcano in the Kuril Islands was responsible for the mysterious 1831 volcanic eruption that cooled the climate ...

Manila, Washington, and Tokyo leaders set a meeting this weekend to strategize on security cooperation amid regional ...

The volcano is located on Simushir Island, in the Kurils chain of islands – a disputed territory between Russia and ... Islands off the coast of Russia and Japan. Scientists say that during ...

China and Japan accused each other of maritime incursions after a confrontation between their coast guards in waters around disputed islands in the East China Sea. China's coast guard said on ...

The trip gave the impression that Japan’s relations with China were on the mend. Iwaya indicated that Japan would be open to ...

Scientists have identified the “mystery volcano” that erupted in 1831 and cooled Earth’s climate. They have linked it to an island volcano in the northwest Pacific Ocean.

The islands have been characterised by a territorial dispute between Russia and Japan, which dates back to the end of World War Two when Soviet troops seized them from the Japanese. The row has ...

which is part of the disputed Kuril Islands between Russia and Japan. During the Cold War, the Soviet Union used a flooded volcanic crater on Simushir as a secret nuclear submarine base ...

The climate-altering eruption came from the Zavaritskii volcano on an uninhabited island in the Pacific that once hosted a ...

Experts have dismissed Japan's sovereignty claims over the Diaoyu Islands as unfounded, urging both Japan and China to shelve ...

It is situated on Simushir Island, a part of the Kuril Islands archipelago -- a disputed area by Russia ... on an extremely remote island between Japan and Russia, "no one lives there and ...