ジャパンタイムズ

Miyake Island inspires ballad

Popular "enka" ballad singEer Hiroshi Itsuki plans to reEcord a song for the residents of Miyake Island, who were evacuated in September 2000 because of volcanic activity, it was announced Wednesday ...
Los Angeles Times

Evacuees Miss Volcano-Adjacent Homes

MIYAKE ISLAND, Japan — It was the first time Tomiharu Sogabe had been back to his butcher shop and grocery store in more than a year. What he found when he unlocked the door was worse than he had ...
ジャパンタイムズ

Voting to be held on Miyake Island for first time in five years

Residents of Miyake Island will vote in the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly election July 3, the first balloting there since a major volcanic eruption forced a total evacuation five years ago. Miyake is ...
Los Angeles Times

Homecoming Is Sweet Despite Smell of Sulfur

TOKYO — Hidehiko Takahashi finally got to go home last week. After 4 1/2 years of exile in Tokyo, lonely and unable to find work, Takahashi was one of 61 residents of Japan’s Miyake Island who jumped ...
レッドブル

This is Stevie Smith’s Japanese MTB adventure

Filming for Ring of Fire was set to take place at Miyake Island, an island 180km due south of Japan's capital Tokyo. The objective of the trip was to capture Stevie riding a trail covered in lava and ...
UPI

Earthquakes hit Miyake Island, Japan, no damage reported

TOKYO, April 17 (UPI) -- Japan's Miyake Island was struck Wednesday by at least a dozen earthquakes, the strongest a 6.2 magnitude quake, the Japan Meteorological Society said. A volcanic island 112 ...