Japan was struck by a new 6.9-magnitude earthquake on Friday morning, hitting a similar area of the Pacific coast to Monday night’s powerful 7.5-magnitude tremor. The new quake off Aomori prefecture ...

An earthquake measuring 6.0 magnitude on the Richter Scale occurred southeast of Japan's Honshu Island on Friday, according to the National Center for Seismology (NCS). The earthquake struck at a ...

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This tunnel, connecting Japan's main island, Honshu, to the northern island, Hokkaido, passes under the Tsugaru Strait.

This is Japan's least populous region, which means its sites -- like Izumo Taisha, pictured here -- are rarely crowded. Click through to learn more about this part of the country.

A powerful typhoon was approaching Japan's main archipelago of Honshu on Monday, threatening to hit large areas of western and central Japan with heavy rain and high winds, as many people were ...