Scenes of devastation emerged along Japan’s western coast Tuesday as rescuers raced to save residents trapped in the rubble ...

A powerful earthquake struck off Japan's southern coast on Thursday, triggering a tsunami advisory. Residents were urged to stay away from the coastline, but there were no immediate reports of ...

It measured up to 70 centimeters on Tokyo's Hachijojima island. In a sea area southwest of Torishima island in the Izu island chain, which is believed to be the source of the tsunami, four quakes ...

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.1 struck northeastern Japan early Saturday morning with strong shaking felt in Miyagi ...

Almost 12 years after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, 2,523 people remain missing ... followed by Chiba with 21 and Tokyo with 7. Miyagi also has the largest number of missing ...

The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, which has jurisdiction over the Islands, conducted coastal patrols and said there were no casualties. Tsunami waves ranging in height from 10 to 40 ...

Tokyo is set to introduce a four-day workweek for government employees in its latest push to help working mothers and boost record-low fertility rates. Many sociologists attribute the plunging bir ...

A tsunami is life-threatening. If you are near the coast or the mouth of a river, evacuate immediately. NHK has summarized the differences between tsunami warnings and advisories, and compiled ...

A tsunami alert was lifted for the Pacific island nation, but government websites were offline after the quake. The U.S. Embassy building was seriously damaged, officials said.

by University of Tokyo. Before taking his current position ... In 2007, the city of Pisco suffered substantial damage from an earthquake and tsunami of 1-3 meters, resulting in over 500 fatalities, 15 ...