SHIMABARA, Nagasaki Prefecture--Locals gathered here on June 3 to commemorate the massive eruption of Mount Unzen’s Fugendake ... mix of superhot gases and volcanic matter.

She was only a year old in 1991 when the massive volcanic eruption from Mount Unzen’s Fugendake peak killed her father, Makio, 31, a cameraman for Japan Broadcasting Corp. (NHK). She is his only ...

Volcanic gases, including sulfur dioxide ... Accounts of the day tell of a massive avalanche of rock that hurled down Unzen's Mount Mayuyama. The landslide, probably a pyroclastic flow of hot ...