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

Japan on Tuesday marked 14 years since a devastating earthquake and tsunami rocked the country's northeast and triggered a ...

SENDAI (Kyodo) -- Japan has more than 400 small, inhabited islands that are uniquely exposed to the risks of natural ...

Makoto Watanabe quit a major newspaper after it retracted a scoop. Now he runs an investigative nonprofit that does not shy ...

Scientists warn seismic energy accumulating under the Chishima Trench off Hokkaido has the potential to trigger a magnitude-8 ...

Tokyo, March 18 (Jiji Press)--Japan's House of Representatives, the lower chamber of parliament, passed Tuesday a bill aimed at strengthening disaster prevention measures in peninsular regions of ...

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Professor SAKURAI Aiko of the Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies has a unique background, pursuing a career ...

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Local governments around Japan are using digital signboards, long an instrument for corporate advertising, to convey crucial information during disasters in multiple languages. They are currently ...

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