That tragedy, one of Japan’s most devastating natural disasters, claimed over 20,000 lives, submerged entire cities, and caused widespread destruction. With the country’s ongoing ...

Travel disruption as Japan hit with record-breaking snow - Record-breaking snowfall fell on Japan’s northern main island of ...

As a result, Japan has been honing its earthquake preparedness for many decades. After a series of natural disasters following World War II, Japan enacted the Disaster Countermeasures Basic Act in ...

Japan experiences more earthquakes than any country. But its transit system remains remarkably safe. The bullet train, for example, has never seen a death or serious injury due to an earthquake or ...

The Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami forever changed ... Yet, he now realizes that the natural disasters also led to new ties with volunteers who came to the Tohoku region and that those ...

The government needs to prepare now to avoid negative surprises four or five years down the road, the IMF’s Japan mission ...

Japan is no stranger to the catastrophic power of natural disasters, with the Noto earthquake a little over a year ago being one of the latest in a long list of calamities to hit the country.

KOBE, Japan (Kyodo) -- The western Japan city of ... continues to teach the importance of enhancing preparedness in the disaster-prone nation. Residents and victims' families observed a moment ...

Armed with measuring devices, groups of citizens are embracing science to monitor radioactive fallout — and regain control of ...

TOKYO -- Since a massive earthquake devastated the city of Kobe in 1995, shelters remain unequipped to accommodate at least 530,000 evacuees if a similar disaster were to occur in the same region ...

Japan's nuclear plants faced global scrutiny after the devastating 2011 tsunami triggered by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake.

A series of natural disasters in Japan has soured business sentiment, particularly among non-manufacturers, according to a closely-watched survey. One expert says the data in the Tankan report is ...