An aerial view from the window a commercial aircraft on February 3, 2011 shows smoke rising from the crater of Mount Shinmoedake in the Kirishima mountain range in Kagoshima prefecture, on Japan's southern island of Kyushu. A series of spectacular eruptions from a volcano in southern Japan fired columns of ash and smoke thousands of metres in the air, with the cloud delaying some international flights to Tokyo. [Xinhua/AFP]