A pilot and two passengers were on board the aircraft when it disappeared in cloudy weather, police say.

HEARTBREAKING images have emerged of the twisted wreckage of a sightseeing helicopter that vanished while flying over an active volcano in Japan. The aircraft, carrying two Taiwanese tourists and ...

Rescuers spotted wreckage believed to be from a sightseeing helicopter carrying three people that went missing near one of ...

THE mangled wreck of a missing tourist helicopter has reportedly been found by an active volcano in southern Japan. Two Taiwanese sightseers were travelling on the stricken helicopter before it went ...

Firefighters also received an emergency notification, possibly from one of the passengers’ smartphones ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TOKYO (AP) — A volcano in southern Japan ...

This stunning astronaut photo shows the natural beauty of Japan's Aso Caldera — a giant crater-like bowl containing 17 different volcanoes, leftover from major eruptions spanning over 200,000 years.

From A to H, light-gray pumice, black pumice, brown pumice, gray-banded pumice, black-and-white-banded pumice, white pumice, pink pumice, and obsidian-bearing pumice. I, J, and K show goose barnacles, ...