Ishinomaki was mauled more than any other municipality by the magnitude-9.0 Great East Japan Earthquake and ... as 24 meters if the Nankai Trough quake hits. Concerned about the town’s future ...

When a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and monster tsunami struck coastal areas of the northeastern Japan region of Tohoku ... closed while an inland road was hit by landslides at nine locations and ...

The tsunami, the first wave of which hit ... hazard map in 2018 based on tsunami inundation assumptions reviewed by the Ishikawa prefectural government after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake ...

Every day six and a half million people ride Tokyo Metro's nine lines, part of a dizzyingly complex transport network serving ...

Tokyo, Nov. 7 (Jiji Press)--Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. said Thursday that it has completed the trial removal of nuclear fuel debris from one of the three meltdown-hit reactors at its ...

If they get hit by a car, who can they blame ... at the other end of the PRC’s infamous 9 dash line map, PRC vessels are ...

The storm prompted closures and raised the risk of landslides as it approached the island. It was expected to hit as the ...

Hirosaki was our last stop in Tohoku, but we still had one city to go on this adventure: Hakodate, just across the Tsugaru Strait near the southern tip of Hokkaido. In Part 3 of my travelogue, I’ll ...

The government, its makeup in flux after the governing party lost seats this week, will soon need to make decisions that will ...

(Kyodo) FUKUOKA (Kyodo) -- Nationwide support pouring in for the Noto area ravaged first by an earthquake and then ... of the "ama" divers in southwestern Japan. Ama -- literally "sea women ...

Concern about the government's revived push for nuclear energy grew after a magnitude 7.5 earthquake hit Japan's Noto Peninsula on Jan. 1, 2024, killing more than 400 people and damaging more than ...