Japan’s plans to transform the remote uninhabited island of Mageshima into a strategic military hub have hit a wall.

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The Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11 ... Prefecture and upper 5 in parts of Tokyo to a barely perceptible 1 in Kyushu. There have been only five occasions when a level 7 was recorded ...

Transit in most global cities is government-run. But in Japan, that’s not the case. There, private companies run a sprawling ...

Japanese mobile carrier KDDI Corporation has launched Starlink's WiFi service on-board an overnight ferry. In an announcement, KDDI confirmed the service will be free to use for customers, and said it ...

Don’t worry: It’s general enough to apply to the rest of Japan. But for busy people, here’s a summary of things you should know about what to do before, during and after an earthquake in Japan.

An earthquake of magnitude 4.8 on the Richter Scale jolted Myanmar in the early hours of Friday, the National Center for Seismology (NCS) said. According to NCS, the magnitude 4.8 earthquake ...

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The United States Geological Survey confirms an earthquake happened in New Jersey Friday afternoon. The magnitude 2.4 earthquake was centered near Paramus, according to the USGS, and occurred ...

A shocking accident occurred in which a road suddenly collapsed, even though there had been no earthquake, and a truck ...

MUNAKATA, Fukuoka Prefecture--Physical labor and traditional practices, long the hallmarks of coastal fishing operations in Japan ... by supercomputers at Kyushu University in Fukuoka, based ...