Towering cloud: Shinmoedake erupting between Miyazaki and Kagoshima prefectures.
TOKYO: A Japanese volcano that figured in a 1960s James Bond movie erupted explosively yesterday for the first time since April, sending smoke thousands of metres into the air less than a week after a strong earthquake shook the country’s west.
Shinmoedake, in a mainly rural area about 985km from Tokyo on the southern-most main island of Kyushu, quietened down since the earlier eruption, although admission to the 1,421m-high peak remained restricted.
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