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

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

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

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 ...

Japan's Tohoku Electric Power <a href=" target="_blank">(9506.T) and JERA said they had returned some units to operation after a large earthquake at the weekend knocked out large fossil-fuel power ...

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

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

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

The magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck off the eastern coast of Russia, prompting close monitoring in Alaska, Hawaii and the U.S ...

The International Federation of Red Cross said in a post on its website: “The seismic activity has been very active around the area since the end of June and a magnitude 5.5 (in the Japanese intensity ...

On 30 July, one of the biggest earthquakes ever recorded struck eastern Russia, triggering tsunami alerts across Japan and the Pacific. It is a timely reminder that Japan faces such seismic threats ...

A 2025 study suggests that when the next "Big One" hits, coastal land could sink by up to 6 feet. That sudden drop could instantly double the number of people, homes, and roads exposed to flooding.