A white, weathered store stands quietly in a deserted area of Namie town in Fukushima Prefecture, an area evacuated after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Inside the dilapidated building, ...

Despite the revolving door of leaders, just one party – the Liberal Democrats – has governed for pretty much the whole post-war period. Japanese politics manages to be simultaneously unstable and ...

Japan is on high alert as experts now warn there's a 90% chance of a massive earthquake striking off the coast of Hokkaido ...

Geologists from Heriot-Watt are part of an international research team that has confirmed why the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake off ...

KOBE: On Jan 20, 1995, three days after the Great Hanshin Earthquake, a baby girl weighing 2.97 kilogrammes was born at ...

Fukushima Daiichi survived the most powerful earthquake in Japan’s history. The reactors shut down exactly as designed, and backup generators initially kept cooling systems running. Then the tsunami ...

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 hit the western Chugoku region of Japan on 6th January, followed by a series of sizeable aftershocks, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The ...

Newly arrived U.S. service members and local citizens came together for a disaster preparation course to help people deal ...

To understand why the Tohoku earthquake was so unusually powerful – and why it produced such a catastrophic tsunami – an ...

Japan's Ueno Zoo is returning the country's last two pandas to China at a time when relationships between the two countries ...

By Leika Kihara and Takaya Yamaguchi TOKYO, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Any Japanese intervention to prop up the yen will have limited ...