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

In the aftermath of the devastating Great Hanshin Earthquake in 1995, collapsed buildings blocked rescue efforts and ...

A large Wajima-nuri lacquerware globe, which escaped being damaged in the Noto Peninsula Earthquake last year, will be ...

Naomi Osaka beat Petra Kvitova to win the Australian Open, becoming Asia's first No. 1 ranked player in tennis.

Japan’s plans to transform the remote uninhabited island of Mageshima into a strategic military hub have hit a wall.

A re-examination of the 2015 Bonin Islands earthquake disproved earlier claims of a record-breaking deep aftershock in the ...

Dating key tectonic events in Japan's geological history has long been often challenging due to poor microfossil preservation from intense heat due to metamorphism. Researchers tackled this by using ...

Transit in most global cities is government-run. But in Japan, that’s not the case. There, private companies run a sprawling ...

The magnitude 7.9 Bonin Islands earthquake sequence, which ruptured deep within the earth near the base of the upper mantle, did not include an aftershock that extended to record depths into the lower ...

Japan faced a massive earthquake, a huge tsunami, and a nuclear meltdown. All things considered, they fared pretty well. Why?

Japan intensified its scientific efforts to survey active faults and publicly disseminate seismic risk information in the ...