Japan: Pacific Coast Under Tsunami Warning After M8.8 Quake Off Kamchatka Peninsula 6

Sirens blared as a tsunami warning was issued for a wide area along Japan's Pacific coast after a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on Wednesday, July 30. This video shows sirens blaring in Mie prefecture.

Japan: Pacific Coast Under Tsunami Warning After M8.8 Quake Off Kamchatka Peninsula 5

Sirens blared as a tsunami warning was issued for a wide area along Japan's Pacific coast after a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on Wednesday, July 30.

Japan: Pacific Coast Under Tsunami Warning After M8.8 Quake Off Kamchatka Peninsula 4

Sirens blared as a tsunami warning was issued for a wide area along Japan's Pacific coast after a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on Wednesday, July 30. This video shows sirens blaring near Yamashita Park, along waterfront in Yokohama.

Japan: Pacific Coast Under Tsunami Advisory After Russia M8.0 Earthquake 2

Sirens blared as a tsunami warning was issued for a wide area along Japan's Pacific coast after a magnitude 8.0 earthquake struck off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on Wednesday, July 30. This video shows an evacuation announcement near a beach in Hitachi, Ibaraki Prefecture, urging residents to evacuate.

Japan: Pacific Coast Under Tsunami Advisory After Russia M8.0 Earthquake

Sirens blared as a tsunami advisory was issued for a wide area along Japan's Pacific coast after a magnitude 8.0 earthquake struck off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on Wednesday, July 30.

Crowd Welcoming Khaleda Zia - Bangladesh

Crowd Welcoming Khaleda Zia - Bangladesh

People gather in Kuril Bishwa Road to welcome Bangladesh's former prime minister and leader of the Bangladesh National Party (BNP) Khaleda Zia who arrived in Dhaka after her London visit on May 6 2025, in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Photo by Habibur Rahman/ABACAPRESS.COM

Crowd Welcoming Khaleda Zia - Bangladesh

Crowd Welcoming Khaleda Zia - Bangladesh

People gather in Kuril Bishwa Road to welcome Bangladesh's former prime minister and leader of the Bangladesh National Party (BNP) Khaleda Zia who arrived in Dhaka after her London visit on May 6 2025, in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Photo by Habibur Rahman/ABACAPRESS.COM

Crowd Welcoming Khaleda Zia - Bangladesh

Crowd Welcoming Khaleda Zia - Bangladesh

People gather in Kuril Bishwa Road to welcome Bangladesh's former prime minister and leader of the Bangladesh National Party (BNP) Khaleda Zia who arrived in Dhaka after her London visit on May 6 2025, in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Photo by Habibur Rahman/ABACAPRESS.COM

Crowd Welcoming Khaleda Zia - Bangladesh

Crowd Welcoming Khaleda Zia - Bangladesh

People gather in Kuril Bishwa Road to welcome Bangladesh's former prime minister and leader of the Bangladesh National Party (BNP) Khaleda Zia who arrived in Dhaka after her London visit on May 6 2025, in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Photo by Habibur Rahman/ABACAPRESS.COM

Crowd Welcoming Khaleda Zia - Bangladesh

Crowd Welcoming Khaleda Zia - Bangladesh

People gather in Kuril Bishwa Road to welcome Bangladesh's former prime minister and leader of the Bangladesh National Party (BNP) Khaleda Zia who arrived in Dhaka after her London visit on May 6 2025, in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Photo by Habibur Rahman/ABACAPRESS.COM

Russia's Ebeko volcano spews ash 3,000 meters high

STORY: Russia's Ebeko volcano spews ash 3,000 meters high SHOOTING TIME: March 24/27, 2024 DATELINE: March 28, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:05 LOCATION: Moscow CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. various of the eruptions (courtesy of Kamchatka branch of the federal research center Unified Geological Survey of the Russian Academy of Sciences) STORYLINE: Russia's Ebeko volcano spewed ash to a height of 3,000 meters into the atmosphere, a Russian research institute said Wednesday. "The ash emission reached approximately 3,000 meters above sea level," said the press service of the Kamchatka branch of the federal research center Unified Geological Survey of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The 1,156-meter-high Ebeko volcano is located on Russia's Kuril Island of Paramushir. Regular emissions, ranging from weak to moderate, have been ongoing since Oct. 20, 2016, which are considered normal for the volcano. The record emission occurred on Aug. 31, 2018, when a smoke column surged to a height of 6,000 meters from

Parade to celebrate founding of Kuril District

Parade to celebrate founding of Kuril District

TOKYO, Japan - A parade to celebrate the 65th anniversary of the founding of the Kuril District is held on Etorofu Island, one of the four Russian-controlled islands claimed by Japan off Hokkaido, on Sept. 13, 2014.

Russian court imposes fine on Japanese fishing boat skipper

Russian court imposes fine on Japanese fishing boat skipper

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Noboru Sakashita, the captain of the crab fishing boat Kisshin Maru No. 31, attends a hearing at the South Kuril District Court in Yuzhno-Kurilsk on the Russian-held Kunashiri Island on Sept. 21. The Russian court ordered him to pay about 500,000 rubles ($12,700, or 2.2 million yen) in fines and damages for intruding into and poaching in Russian-claimed territorial waters just off Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido in mid-August.

Remains of Japanese soldiers cremated

Remains of Japanese soldiers cremated

Remains believed to be of 31 Japanese soldiers recovered in the Kuril Islands and the island of Sakhalin are cremated in Smirnykh, Russia, on Nov. 9, 2015. The Japanese side will receive the ashes from Russia on Nov. 11. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Russia hands over Japanese soldiers' remains recovered in Far East

Russia hands over Japanese soldiers' remains recovered in Far East

Toshiei Mizuochi (L), a Japanese upper house member who heads an association of people who lost family members during World War II, shakes hands with a Russian official at a memorial service held in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk on Russia's Far Eastern island of Sakhalin on Nov. 11, 2015. Russia handed over to Japan the same day a total of 31 sets of what are believed to be remains of Japanese soldiers recovered by a Russian group on Shumshu Island, now part of Russia's Kuril Islands chain. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Old Japanese tank displayed at museum on Russia's Sakhalin Island

Old Japanese tank displayed at museum on Russia's Sakhalin Island

A woman takes a photo of a boy sitting atop an Imperial Japanese Army tank at the Sakhalin Regional Museum in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk on Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East on Sept. 2, 2015. The tank, which was recently repaired and relocated, had been abandoned on one of the Kuril Islands where Japanese and Soviet troops fought fiercely after Japan accepted the Potsdam Declaration ending World War II. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

WWII veteran recalls fighting Russian invasion of northern islands

WWII veteran recalls fighting Russian invasion of northern islands

Hidetaka Oda recalls during an interview in Higashine, Yamagata Prefecture, northern Japan, on Dec. 29, 2014, his involvement in a battle when Soviet troops began invading the Kuril Islands in the Far East on Aug. 18, 1945, three days after Japan's surrender in World War II. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Russian court imposes fine on Japanese fishing boat skipper

Russian court imposes fine on Japanese fishing boat skipper

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Noboru Sakashita, the captain of the crab fishing boat Kisshin Maru No. 31, attends a hearing at the South Kuril District Court in Yuzhno-Kurilsk on the Russian-held Kunashiri Island on Sept. 21. The Russian court ordered him to pay about 500,000 rubles ($12,700, or 2.2 million yen) in fines and damages for intruding into and poaching in Russian-claimed territorial waters just off Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido in mid-August. (Kyodo)

Russian missile Bastion

Russian missile Bastion

Photo taken at a military parade in Vladivostok, Russia, in May 2018, shows vehicles equipped with the Bastion land-to-ship missile system. Russia is planning to deploy additional missile systems on two islands in the northern part of the Kuril Islands chain, off Japan's Hokkaido, to strengthen its defense capabilities in the region, according to an internal Russian document. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo