In 1995, divers first noticed a group of bizarre sandy "crop circles" on the seabed around Amami Oshima Island, southwest ...

Nov. 9 (UPI) --A new small island the diameter of a football field emerged from the Pacific Ocean near mainland Japan in late October after underwater volcano eruptions, a Japanese researcher said on ...

Diving off the coast of Japan, scuba divers spotted an underwater light show. The small blue-purple lights seemed to pulse through the surrounding dark water. When scientists took a closer look at the ...

A Japanese civil engineering firm wants to build an underwater city as a solution for the danger presented by rising sea levels. The plan is an ambitious one. The proposed ‘Ocean Spiral’ will be a ...

An underwater volcano erupted off Japan's coast three weeks ago, giving birth to a new island. The unnamed undersea volcano, located about 1,200 kilometers (750 miles) south of mainland Japan and a ...

Japan is turning to the ocean in a bid to augment its renewable energy production using a 330-ton turbine that harnesses the power of deep-sea currents. Called “Kairyu,” the plan is to build a ...

Japan has a new island after an undersea volcano erupted on Oct. 21 more than 740 miles south of Tokyo, but experts say the new land mass might not last. Like many Japanese islands, this unnamed land ...

Off the coast of Yonaguni Island in Japan, a submerged structure has puzzled divers, researchers, and archaeologists since its discovery nearly four decades ago. The monument, hidden beneath the ...

The Yonaguni Monument, an enigmatic underwater structure near Japan’s Yonaguni Island, has intrigued scientists and explorers for nearly four decades. Discovered in 1986, this submerged formation ...

The biggest underwater volcanic eruption Japan has seen since the end of WWII has left shores covered in pumice stone. In one video, stones are seen covering the waves, while images show fishing ports ...

Nov. 5 (UPI) --Large underwater drones may roam the East China Sea if Japanese plans to deter Chinese vessels near the Senkaku Islands are ratified by Japan's Cabinet. Tokyo wants to introduce ...

Deep-sea explorers scouring the world's oceans for sunken World War II ships are focusing in on debris fields deep in the Pacific, in an area where one of the most decisive battles of the time took ...