Is the aim of this system to prepare for situations in which the functions of the central government’s ministries and agencies and other entities are lost due to large-scale disasters? Or is the ...

Evacuation drills to transport residents to safety by sea and air due to a nuclear plant accident have been canceled more ...

Skip the usual Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto haunts and head instead to Chiba Prefecture for a trip to Japan that's off the beaten ...

Conventional borehole backfilling suffers from various technical limitations, making infrastructure demolition and renewal difficult. In an innovative development, researchers from Shibaura Institute ...

Taiwan should bolster the military’s command and control capabilities to enhance its integration with US and Japanese forces, former defense officials from the US and Japan said. They made the remarks ...

An earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 6.7 hit Miyagi and Iwate prefectures at 5:03 p.m. on Sunday, measuring 4 on the ...

TOKYO – Tsunami waves up to 20-centimeter high reached the Pacific coast of Iwate Prefecture in northeastern Japan on Sunday ...

A powerful earthquake has rattled northern Japan, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. A tsunami advisory is lifted ...

Northeastern Japan is prone to earthquakes, including a triple disaster of a quake, tsunami and a nuclear meltdown in ...

A 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Japan's Iwate Prefecture at 5:03 p.m. local time on Sunday.

A strong earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale struck off the northern coast of Japan on Sunday evening, prompting a ...