Critics call Tepco’s US$654 million offer to residents living near the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant a cynical attempt to buy ...

The disaster killed 15,900 people, with 2,520 people still listed as missing as of the end of February, according to the ...

Near Nagoya, startup AirKamuy is building affordable cardboard “origami drones” as Japan accelerates defense innovation under ...

Prior to Tuesday’s earthquake, the 10 largest earthquakes since 1900 were ... A tsunami of 50 centimeters (1.6 feet) was detected at the Ishinomaki port in northern Japan, according to the Japan ...

ONE cold January morning in 1995, residents of the Japanese city of Kobe (just west of Osaka) awoke to the sound of the earth ...

Two powerful quakes struck off the southern Philippines on Friday, killing at least eight people and triggering tsunami warnings.

Japan's overstretched electricity grid is likely to receive another Arctic blast in the coming days, which is already pushing up wholesale prices and may stress generators as they struggle to keep ...

Across the globe, few nations have faced as many natural disasters as Japan — from typhoons and tsunamis to earthquakes and ...

The prefectural and city governments of Osaka have announced they will retain just a 200-meter portion of the world's largest ...

Suzu, an Ishikawa city heavily damaged in the disasters, will receive the dismantled timber from the world's largest wooden ...

There is just one week to go until the World Expo in Osaka draws to a close. Organizers are bracing for a surge in ...