During the Great East Japan Earthquake, the tsunami reached shore about 30 minutes after the quake. But in a Nankai Trough megaquake, a tsunami could hit land within minutes, making pre-emptive ...

File photo taken in July 1993 shows the Aonae district in the southern part of Okushiri Island burning after an earthquake ...

A Japanese court rejects a request to halt the operation of a nuclear reactor run by Shikoku Electric Power Co. in western ...

Japan has more than 400 small, inhabited islands that are uniquely exposed to the risks of natural disasters. In the event of a major earthquake, the islands' inherent isolation and, for some, remote ...

The Nankai Trough stretches from Shizuoka ... in the magnitude-6 class after the magnitude-7.6 earthquake “has never been observed before in Japan.” (This article was written by Takahiro ...

When trying to improve, refine, and seek more efficiency in disaster management measures, predicting the extent of disaster ...

The affected areas, hit by an unprecedented disaster, are moving forward step by step, but they are facing difficult ...

This is the fifth installment of a series that follows the waves of change taking place in Kyushu and nearby Yamaguchi and ...

Japan faces the constant risk of natural calamities striking anywhere at any time. To save as many lives as possible, it is ...