At least 354 bridges on emergency transportation routes around Japan are at risk of collapsing during a major earthquake ... The board reviewed bridge work carried out by 14 national route ...
U.S. Army aviators and Japanese troops are participating in Nankai Rescue, a U.S.-Japan disaster drill that kicked off Monday ...
Japan's nuclear plants faced global scrutiny after the devastating 2011 tsunami triggered by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake.
The Japan Meteorological Agency has a unique seismic scale called shindo that measures the degree of shaking in the event of an earthquake. This set of numbers — ranging from 0 to 7 — is ...
ODAWARA, Kanagawa -- A railroad bridge in this eastern Japan city has remained popular ... by a massive landslide during the Great Kanto Earthquake the following year. The reconstruction work ...