In Wajima City, Ishikawa Prefecture, the maple tree at Saikyoji Temple still stands proudly almost two years after the 2024 ...

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

Indonesian authorities raised the alert for Mount Semeru volcano to the highest level on Wednesday after a series of eruptions. The volcano lies on the country’s ...

Is the aim of this system to prepare for situations in which the functions of the central government’s ministries and agencies and other entities are lost due to large-scale disasters? Or is the ...

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

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

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 ...

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

Skip the usual Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto haunts and head instead to Chiba Prefecture for a trip to Japan that's off the beaten ...

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

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

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