“It looks like it will die,” Nishibori said of the cherry tree, “but it’s not going to die. The next spring, there will be ...

The Japanese government estimates that there is a 70-80 percent chance of a megaquake occurring within 30 years.

The Akashi Kaikyo Bridge is a key 12,831-foot bridge linking two islands in Japan across the Akashi Strait. This suspension bridge, also known as Pearl Bridge, took a decade to build and involved ...

Japanese manufacturers are accelerating efforts to mitigate the economic impact of a massive earthquake forecast to occur in the Nankai Trough off the country's Pacific coast. Last week ...

(Mainichi/Satoshi Kobayashi) KOCHI -- A 23-year-old man who was born in Japan and raised in the Gaza Strip recently enrolled in a vocational school here to study the language and become a "bridge ...

nurses and pharmacists – left the Japanese capital on Tuesday evening and arrived in Myanmar the next day. The mission came nearly five days after the magnitude 7.7 earthquake that devastated ...

In 1995, she made another chilling forecast in her dream journal, warning of a devastating earthquake in Kobe, Japan. The 1995 Kobe earthquake, which killed over 6,000 people, aligned with Tatsuki ...

In the event of a major earthquake in Japan, municipal authorities are ill-prepared to deal with its aftermath due to a lack of disaster recovery equipment and other resources, according to a new ...

The tremors came days after Japan warned that a powerful earthquake in the Nakai Trough could kill up to 300,000 people and set off destructive tsunamis in Japan. It also comes soon after two ...

An earthquake of 6.0 magnitude struck Japan's Kyushu on Wednesday, according to the National Center for Seismology. No reports of any damage have been reported yet. Tremors of the first earthquake ...

The megaquake warning comes as Myanmar and Thailand grapple with a devastating earthquake of 7.7 magnitude. The Japanese government's estimate adds that the megaquake is likely to see 1.23 million ...

Japan lies along the circum-Pacific seismic belt, better known as the "Ring of Fire," located along the outer edges of the Pacific Ocean, where about 81 percent of the largest earthquakes in the ...