According to the USGS, the first quake was a magnitude 4.6 event at approximately 27 kilometers east-northeast of Hualien ...

Nankai Trough earthquake has a 60% to 90% probability of occurring. Japanese insurers are facing growing pressure from the ...

Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako plan to visit Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima 15 years after a massive earthquake and tsunami ...

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

Many developed nations are facing the simultaneous aging of infrastructure built during periods of rapid economic growth. Japan has reached a critical turning point where numerous buildings and ...

China has demanded she retract the remarks & urged its citizens not to travel to Japan, which could deal a sizable blow to ...

But the disaster did not end with water. The waves crippled the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant, causing reactor meltdowns, ...

Baumkuchen originated in Germany but has become a wildly popular sweet in Japan, where a prisoner of war on a small western ...

TOKYO: A fire ripped through more than 170 buildings and killed one person in a southern Japanese coastal city on Wednesday, ...

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

China has warned there is “no market” for Japanese seafood exports, the latest veiled threat from Beijing as its diplomatic spat with Tokyo escalates over recent comments by ...

Air Canada yesterday said it is offering Taiwanese travelers who are headed to North America free stopovers if they transit though airports in Japan and South Korea. The promotion was launched in ...