A tsunami warning was triggered after a powerful earthquake struck off Japan's southern coast. The Japan Meteorological ...

The southwestern Japanese prefecture of Kumamoto on Thursday marked the 10th anniversary of a deadly earthquake, the more i ...

Two months after the powerful Noto Peninsula earthquake disrupted residents' daily lives, 19,000 households in Ishikawa ...

Japan’s most active volcano erupted on Saturday afternoon, sending an ash plume 3.4km into the sky, grounding flights and ...

The 278 victims of two massive earthquakes that struck Japan's Kumamoto Prefecture in April 2016 are remembered, while the ...

Hang in there! I’ll definitely come to help!” On April 17, 2016, a letter featuring Luffy, the protagonist of the manga *One ...

The first train car of the “Tsubame” Shinkansen, which was damaged in the Kumamoto Earthquake, is lit up during an event in ...

For more, let's speak to our correspondent Terrence Terashima in Tokyo. The governor of Japan's Okinawa has approved a controversial plan to relocate a U.S. air base to a less populous part of the ...

With the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant’s No. 6 reactor resuming commercial operations on Thursday, it raised the ...

TOKYO, April 18 (Reuters) - An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5 struck mountainous Nagano prefecture in central Japan on Saturday, NHK said. The quake hit Omachi in northern Nagano around ...

While experts have long advocated learning from the past to reduce disaster-related deaths, few municipalities are taking ...