SHIMABARA, Nagasaki -- June 3 marked 35 years since a major pyroclastic flow on Mount Unzen's Fugen peak in Nagasaki Prefecture claimed the lives of 43 people in 1991. As the number of people with ...

It was the autumn of 1991.As a fourth-year university student, I taped a piece of paper to the door of my room in the student dormitory.I'm off to Mount Unzen-Fugen.Then, I set off on a journey with a ...

Memorial services were held to commemorate the catastrophic 1991 eruption and pyroclastic flow at Mount Unzen's Fugen peak that killed 43 people, including volunteer firefighters, to keep lessons of ...

Professor Kanebumi Kanbe of the University of Nagasaki, far right, explains the situation at the time of the disaster to students, in Shimabara, Nagasaki Prefecture, on June 3, 2026. (Mainichi/Minoru ...