When an earthquake measuring a lower 5 or stronger on the 7-point Japanese seismic intensity scale is predicted, public broadcaster NHK airs ･･･ ...

Fear of a massive earthquake, amplified by both soothsayers and social media, is prompting some travelers to steer clear of ...

Japan is a global leader in earthquake-resistant architecture, where skyscrapers don’t just reach for the sky—they are engineered to withstand powerful tremors. In this video, explore the incredible ...

Unfounded online rumours warning that a huge earthquake will soon strike Japan are taking a toll on travel firms and airlines ...

Using fault geometry data, scientists simulated the Noto Peninsula earthquake and explained why uplift varied so drastically ...

New research shows that in minutes after the earthquake hits, coastal areas of California, Oregon and Washington could drop ...

Japan Society and Metrograph will co-present Mikio Naruse: The World Betrays Us, a 30-film retrospective devoted to Naruse, the “fourth great” master of Japanese cinema, from May 9th through June 29th ...

This level of movement is comparable to what was seen in Tokyo during a major earthquake in 2011. The Japan Meteorological Agency rated the quake’s impact as a 3 out of 4 on the Long-period Ground ...

The book received little mainstream attention until sometime after the Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent tsunami on March 11, 2011. The story of "Watashi ga Mita Mirai" itself doesn’t ...

The Chinese embassy in Tokyo appears to have inadvertently exacerbated concerns about the possibility of a major earthquake occurring in Japan this summer – drawing attention to previous rumours ...

(Mainichi/Kenjiro Sato) HIROSHIMA -- "The people have the power," U.S. punk rock legend Patti Smith called out to a crowd of some 250 people in Hiroshima, the western Japan city where the first ...

It was history. On March 11, 2011, the Great East Japan Earthquake, magnitude 9.0, struck 80 miles off the Northeast Coast of Japan, generating a series of tsunami waves, some of them 40 feet high.