A 1999 manga predicting a July 2025 megaquake in Japan sparks travel cancellations and panic, despite expert warnings that ...

A 5.5‑magnitude Tokara Islands quake hits amid over 900 tremors in weeks. Japan revises its megaquake readiness after dire ...

Japan is no stranger to seismic activity. As one of the most earthquake-prone countries on Earth, it sits atop four major ...

HONG KONG (Kyodo) -- Kyoto-based academic German Cheung adopted a "better safe than sorry" approach to the prospect of an ...

TOTTORI—An unfounded rumor of an impending major earthquake in Japan has forced international flights between Yonago Kitaro ...

A drone-based tsunami detection is taking shape along this famed surfing coastline to ensure a speedy evacuation of ...

Hijiribashi bridge, which crosses the Kanda River, remains crowded more than 30 years after author Ryotaro Shiba wrote about ...

Located about 40 minutes by car from central Sendai, the rest area resembles an aircraft hangar and gives visitors an unobstructed view of the squadron's training flights. Higashi Matsushima sits on ...

The six Tohoku prefectures, Tohoku Tourism Promotion Organization, and Tohoku Kizuna Festival Executive Committee held the "Tohoku Four Seasons & ...

A magnitude 4.3 earthquake that hit Guangdong province on Monday evening was felt here in Hong Kong. The tremor struck ...

Japan is no stranger to natural disasters, like the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture.

It was in the late spring of 1955 that Japanese literature scholar Donald Keene first traveled to northeastern Japan's Tohoku region to follow the ste ...