Sakura-jima: eruptive activity increases 13 March 2012 Posted by admin in activity reports, eruptions, Japan, Sakura-jima.trackback Situated in the south of Kyushu, the southernmost of the four main islands making up the Japanese archipelago, Sakura-jima is one of the world’s most active volcanoes. The Global Volcanism Program records Sakura-jima’s current eruption as having begun in October 1955, so it has now been on the go continuously for more than half a century. Over the past couple of...