In a country still haunted by the 2011 Tohoku disaster, when a 9.1 magnitude earthquake triggered a deadly tsunami, authorities are taking no chances. That tragedy, one of Japan’s most ...

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

A strong earthquake struck southwestern Japan, the U.S. Geological Survey said, prompting authorities to issue a tsunami ...

More than 5,400 people died in Japan over the past 30 years due to severe stress and exhaustion caused by evacuation ...

U.S. Army aviators and Japanese troops are participating in Nankai Rescue, a U.S.-Japan disaster drill that kicked off Monday.

The Tohoku earthquake — the strongest recorded in Japan, at a magnitude of 9.1 — and resulting tsunami killed more than 18,000 and remains the costliest natural disaster to date. Rikuzentakata ...

The Earthquake Research Committee said it has increased its estimate of the probability to between 75 and 82 percent from ...

Japan’s Meteorological Agency withdrew a tsunami advisory after a 6.9 magnitude earthquake occurred off the coast of ...

The 2011 tsunami also sent three reactors into meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant, causing Japan's worst post-war disaster and the most serious nuclear accident since Chernobyl. In March 2022 ...